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Tell your agent when it is finished
An agent keeps working until it is finished, if you tell it what finished means. This is how I describe beforehand what a good result looks like, as a checklist.
There comes a moment in my training sessions when the foundation is ready. The folders are set up, the first skills are built. And then I ask a new question: what do you want your agent to do while you go and eat? Then it is suddenly about something else than asking a question and getting an answer. It is about an agent that continues working on its own.
There is a word for that, loop engineering. You are going to hear that a lot in the coming period. It sounds technical. But the idea behind it is simple, and I use it very often myself.
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Human in the loop or human on the loop?
With every automation you choose how much oversight you keep. The difference between approving every step and watching with your hand on the brake, and how you choose what fits your process.
As soon as you automate something with AI, a question arises that is often asked too late: where do I stand in this process? Do I still do something, do I just watch, or am I completely out of it? The answer determines how reliable your automation becomes, and how much time it really saves you.
Feel free to copy the prompt at the bottom of this article, then you can immediately see step by step where you stand in your own automation.
Two forms of oversight
In my workshops I make a distinction between two forms. The human in the loop and the human on the loop. It sounds like a play on words, but the difference is big.
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