AI workflow and an AI agent
The entire difference between comes down
In 10 min
This is the clearest explanation I've seen:
>LLMs
>Workflows
>Agents
"Most explanations of AI agents is either too technical or too basic"
He built a simple 3 level path so you don't need any technical background to actually get it
00:00 - AI vs AI Agents, why almost everyone uses the word "agent" wrong
01:04 - Level 1: LLMs, passive tools that only know what they were trained on and never touch your personal data
02:17 - Level 2: AI Workflows, a human still writes every step, like a predefined path that turns a news article into a social post
05:26 - Level 3: AI Agents, the LLM finally becomes the decision maker, using a ReAct loop to reason, act, and check its own work
07:48 - Real world example, an AI agent is told to find a "skier" in raw video footage, it searches, indexes, and returns the clips with zero manual tagging by a human
09:10 - Summary, the one line that separates a workflow from an agent
"The key trait here is that the LLM is a decision maker in the workflow"
9-min - bookmark and watch
AI workflow and an AI agent
The entire difference between comes down
In 10 min
This is the clearest explanation I've seen:
>LLMs
>Workflows
>Agents
"Most explanations of AI agents is either too technical or too basic"
He built a simple 3 level path so you don't need any technical background to actually get it
00:00 - AI vs AI Agents, why almost everyone uses the word "agent" wrong
01:04 - Level 1: LLMs, passive tools that only know what they were trained on and never touch your personal data
02:17 - Level 2: AI Workflows, a human still writes every step, like a predefined path that turns a news article into a social post
05:26 - Level 3: AI Agents, the LLM finally becomes the decision maker, using a ReAct loop to reason, act, and check its own work
07:48 - Real world example, an AI agent is told to find a "skier" in raw video footage, it searches, indexes, and returns the clips with zero manual tagging by a human
09:10 - Summary, the one line that separates a workflow from an agent
"The key trait here is that the LLM is a decision maker in the workflow"
9-min - bookmark and watch
HumanLayer founder Dex Horthy, the guy who coined "Context Engineering":
"We've gotten Claude Code to handle 300k LOC Rust codebases, ship a week's worth of work in a day, and maintain code quality that passes expert review."
he wrote the essay that first coined "Context Engineering" back in April 2025, before that he was in high school building tools for NASA researchers to navigate the south pole of the moon
"This isn't another '10x your productivity' pitch."
he calls his method "frequent intentional compaction" - deliberately structuring how you feed context to the AI throughout the entire dev process
"The dumb zone is real - and most developers are stuck in it without knowing"
20-min - bookmark and watch