Analysis & perspective
What an AI Agent Actually Is: A Model With Tools, in a Loop
Tech With Tim opens by pushing back on the way agents usually get described — as though there's a little brain in there that thinks, reasons, and makes decisions — arguing that framing is exactly why the topic feels like hype rather than something practical. His honest one-sentence version: an AI agent is simply a language model that can use tools, running in a loop until it finishes a job. Everything else in an agent framework is scaffolding around those three parts.
Only the opening portion of this video had captions available, so this page covers the definition rather than the full build-along that follows. Watch the source for the implementation walkthrough.
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