I’ve been using an AI agent for a month, and I’m both impressed and terrified

We’ve reached a pretty interesting point with AI. For the longest time, I’ve mostly used AI tools to ask questions or to write emails and summarize long PDFs. But AI agents are starting to change that.

If you’re unfamiliar with the difference between an AI chatbot and an AI agent, it’s pretty simple. While a chatbot mostly gives you answers or helps you figure out how to do something, an AI agent can actually perform those tasks for you. For example, instead of asking AI to draft an email, you can ask an agent to find the relevant information, write the email, and send it on your behalf.