I Built My First AI Agent in an Afternoon. Here's the Playbook I Wish I Had on Day One.

A step-by-step guide to going from a blank folder to a working agent, without the hype. "AI agent" has become one of the most overloaded words in tech. Depending on who you ask, it's either a ChatGPT wrapper, a multi-step workflow, or a fully autonomous system that replaces an employee. Here's the definition I actually use when I sit down to build one: an AI agent is an LLM in a loop that can use tools, read from and write to memory, and make decisions about what to do next. That definition...