HACKER Q&A
📣 lunarcave

Who's using agents for work?


I really like Anthropic's definition [1] of what an agent is.

> Workflows are systems where LLMs and tools are orchestrated through predefined code paths.

> Agents, on the other hand, are systems where LLMs dynamically direct their own processes and tool usage, maintaining control over how they accomplish tasks.

I use coding agents heavily for UI / CRUD APIs based work. I think they're a really good use case of productionising an agent which needs contextual enrichment and can self-correct.

There are a lot of companies building vertical domain specific agents. It's unclear what their actual value delivery is beyond the marketing copy.

But is there anyone building things for their own use / internal company usage? If so, what are you using it for?