An Agent Is Just an LLM in a For-Loop

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

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The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica
An Agent Is Just an LLM in a For-Loop
Aug 20, 2026
Ben Lorica

Maarten Grootendorst, a developer relations engineer at Google DeepMind and co-author of Hands-On Large Language Models and An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents, joins Ben Lorica to explain the concepts developers need to understand beneath today鈥檚 AI tools. 

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