We just wrapped the first live community session. What we covered: 1. Why this community exists, and how Sundays will run from here 2. The 3 Levels of AI Agents: Chatbot (talks), Tool-Using (acts), Workflow (ships a full process) 3. The beginner trap: most people jump straight to Level 3 and stall. Build a small Level 2 first. 4. How to actually start: pick one boring agent that solves one real problem you have this week. Your challenge this week Before next Sunday, post one AI agent idea in the community using this format: 1. Agent name 2. Problem it solves 3. Who it helps 4. Tools it needs 5. What the first version should do I will review selected ideas live next Sunday and help you sharpen them. Recording is pinned in Youtube Resources. If you missed it, drop your question below and I will answer every one in the next 48 hours. What is the first agent you want to build?

Nobody talks about this: the 'thinking out loud' style of reasoning models is mostly noise for production. You don't ship a chatbot that goes 'Let me think... I should consider...'. Strip the chain-of-thought from outputs. Reasoning is useful internally, ugly externally.

Day 30 of my email sorter. now also drafts replies for the 'can wait' bucket. team is using the drafts as starter text. saved each person ~20 min/day they say. wild that the simplest agent in my system is the one that's actually useful.

Been reading a lot over the past few days, especially the failure-story posts (Priya's CrewAI typo, the overbuilt summarizer post). Honestly easier to learn from those than from happy-path tutorials. Anyone else find the failure stories more useful than the polished wins?

Killed a 3-week project today. Built a "smart" meeting summarizer for a client. They didn't want it. They wanted just the action items in their slack which would've taken 1 day. I overbuilt because I fell in love with the architecture. Lesson: ask "what do you do with the output?" BEFORE designing the agent. Output drives architecture, not the other way around. Anyone else have a "wow that was an expensive lesson" moment this week?