Don't Build Agents Unless.... | Anthropic's Advice

Anthropic recently published a post, "Building Effective Agents." Surprisingly, it argues that you should build agents only after you've exhausted simpler ways to solve your problem. 1:00 - Four points of the video 1:12 - Thank you to Barry Zhang and Erik Schluntz 1:40 - Naming things 2:07 - What is an agent? 4:50 - Keep it simple 7:15 - Workflows 11:40 - When to build agents 13:34 - Claude Computer use