#28 AI agents explained - Manus AI, computer control, Agentic workflows (healthcare)

AI agents are here, but how did we get here in the first place? How do we build and leverage AI agents for high stakes domains like healthcare? In this episode of Dev and Doc, we go deep into the forest that is AI agents and computer control - starting from the "caveman" era of LLMs discovering tools, to cultivating intelligent models and agentic workflows. We dissect everyday agents like MANUS AI, and deep dive into how, where and when AI agents should be used. Are these agents hype or hope, is this actually the second deepseek moment?

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Episode Timestamps:
00:00 Highlight
3:13 start / intro
5:20 LLM's caveman era - tool usage
6:46 Agents have autonomy and interact with environment
11:15 workflows and agentic flows
15:30 when should you be using an agent?
24:27 vibe coding is like driving a car
29:07 Demo - MANUS gathering financial trends, computer control
35:55 Demo MANUS AI- website creation for Autism Assessment
49:05 computer control factions- Freedom vs Process automation
55:00 Autism website testing
59:13 summary + end

Hosts:
👨🏻‍⚕️Doc - Dr. Joshua Au Yeung - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-joshua-auyeung/
🤖Dev - Zeljko Kraljevic https://twitter.com/zeljkokr

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