AI Agent Patterns
Previously, I was blogging about AI Abstractions and the various levels of abstraction. Now, I want to delve deeper into some patterns we can leverage while writing software using LLMs/APIs and building AI Agents. Many people still question the value of Gen AI, and I understand that, scams, delusional objectives and expectations, FUD, and many other incidents . However, for engineering, it's clear that there is value, and engineering as we know it may never be the same again. Agents are interesting because we can tweak how much autonomy we give to them; they could be bound to a straightforward and repetitive task like bumping the minor version of log4j, or could be used for complex tasks like booking a complete week of vacation with car, hotel, plane tickets, experiences, and plans. So imagine there is a dial that we can tune up or down, and how much autonomy we want to give to agents. Besides open-source models like DeepSeek or Llama , the cost remains complicated. However, clou...