Chapter 2. What Is an AI Worker?
In this section
- Chapter 2. What Is an AI Worker?The sixteen elements that define an AI Worker, how a worker differs from a model, an assistant, an automation and an agent, how to choose a surface, the features the work needs and a model, and the first draft of a Role Contract.
- 2.1 The anatomy of an AI WorkerThe sixteen elements that define an AI Worker, sorted into five groups, and four pairs of elements that are easy to confuse.
- 2.2 Five things people call "AI"What a model, an assistant, an automation, an agent and an AI Worker each are, how they nest, and two questions that tell them apart.
- 2.3 Worker, runtime and channelWhy a worker is defined apart from the runtime that executes it and the channels people reach it through, and two tests that check it.
- 2.4 Choosing a surface and a modelHow to choose a surface by the rung, when to add a project, a connector, a skill or research, where memory and code execution fit, how to tell close choices apart, how to choose the output by what must last, and three rules for choosing a model.
- 2.5 How today's tools realize itHow Anthropic, OpenAI and open-source tools offer surfaces and models today, the differences that change a decision, and what holds on each.
- 2.6 The Role ContractThe Role Contract, a worker's portable, owned and checkable one-page definition, with its template and two contrasting workers.
- Lab 2: the first Role ContractChapter 2's lab: write the AP Worker's first Role Contract one group at a time, with the AI typing and you deciding, test it against this week's five messages, and keep it as a document you can download.
- Check yourselfRecall and practice for the whole chapter: the flashcards, and a final quiz round from all six concepts.