The Reasoning Show
The Reasoning Show AI moves fast. Thinking clearly matters more.
The Reasoning Show cuts through the hype to explore how the smartest people in enterprise AI actually make decisions — the strategy, the tradeoffs, and the hard lessons no press release mentions.
Every week, hosts Aaron Delp and Brian Gracely sit down with the founders building the tools, investors funding the shift, and operators running AI in the real world. Not hype. Not panic. Just clear-headed conversations with people who have to make actual decisions.
Because the AI revolution isn't just happening. It's being reasoned through.
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Topics: Enterprise AI strategy · LLMs in production · AI leadership · Agentic AI · Digital Sovereignty · Machine Learning · AI startups · Cloud Computing
The Reasoning Show
What is an AI Agent?
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OVERVIEW: Welcome to The Reasoning Show! We dig into one of the foundational building blocks of modern Generative AI, the AI Agent. So what is an AI Agent, and what do we need to think about for the next couple years?
SHOW: 1007
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1007 Transcript
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SHOW NOTES:
Topic 1 - We’re 3+ years into the Generative AI era. Why do you think AI Agents, or Agentic AI, is now getting so much attention?
Topic 2 - If someone asked you to explain what an AI Agent is, how would you do that?
Topic 3 - What are some of the core elements of AI Agents that you’re seeing impact how people think about and use agents?
- How to define tasks
- Languages and frameworks
- Ability to orchestrate multiple agents
- Human-in-the-Loop vs. Autonomous
- Other?
Topic 4 - AI Agents are going to spark the great “how much should I pay for this?” discussion. Have you given this any thought yet?
Topic 5 - How do you expect to use AI agents in your day-to-day work, and how do you expect this to impact Enterprise businesses?
ESSENTIAL READING
- Building Effective Agents" by Anthropic: designing agents with tools, memory, reasoning loops
- A Comprehensive Review of AI Agents: how agents perceive, reason, decide, act
- Top 20 AI Agent Concepts You Should Know: covering ReAct, Chain of Thought, memory types
- AI Agents in Action: Foundations for Evaluation and Governance: structured foundation for safety aspects of agent deployment
Essential Viewing
- AI Agentic Design Patterns w/ AutoGen: build autonomous agents that use tools
- AI Agent Systems w/ crewAI: orchestrating teams of agents
- LangGraph Course: how to build stateful, reliable agents
Frameworks & Tools
- LangGraph: standard for complex, stateful agents (nodes, edges, loops)
- CrewAI: Best for structured task delegation and multi-agent collaboration
- AutoGen: Microsoft's framework for multi-agent conversational systems
- Model Context Protocol (MCP): standard for connecting agents, tools, data
- n8n: no-code/low-code visual
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