Boris

So I feel like probably a lot of listeners have heard the word agent, but they don't actually know what it means or they think it's some cool AI or something.

But it actually has a very specific meaning in the AI world, which I think has kind of been lost because a lot of the products that people have released and called agentic in the past are not actually agentic.

And so when you think about the AI products that everyone's used, like obviously Quad Code, chat-based apps where you just chat with the app back and forth, send some messages, the biggest difference with Agents is it can take action.

And, you know, it's not just text and it's not just like web searching, but it can actually use tools on your computer.

It can interact with the world.

And so for Anthropic from the very beginning, since before our models were good, like before like, you know, like Cloud 3 or whatever, this is a thing that we wanted to get really good at because we felt that it's very important.

And so from the start, we wanted our models to be really great at coding and then really great at tool use and then really great at computer use.

So it's kind of cool, like, you know, the last year, seeing how people have been hacking quad code, it's pretty obvious this is kind of the place that we should go.

And so for people that have used quad code, you know, none of this will be, you know, like too surprising.

These are actually things that you can do.

So really what we're trying to do is make this something that everyone can use in a way that's safe.

And so what I'm going to do is, you know, here on my desktop, I have this like receipts folder.

I have a few receipts in it.

So I'm just going to give a co-work access to my desktop and you have to pick like which specific folders I can see by default, they can't see anything.

So you have to kind of opt in to see, to let it access specific folders.

And so I'm going to say, you know, I can say I have a receipts folder.

Can you rename the files to match the dates on the receipts?

Yeah, exactly.

It has your files, so the ones that you give it access to.

But actually, the even cooler thing is it can use all sorts of tools.