Can someone who knows more about AI agents explain this to me?
Axios quotes an Anthropic spokesperson re: the Claude leaks, who says that this new capability is coming: "A “persistent assistant” running in background mode that lets Claude Code keep working even when a user is idle. "
Isn’t that what they claim “agents” are doing already? Or am I missing something? I would hate to learn that “agents” are just a marketing term and they don’t actually do the thing these companies claim… ;)
See an agent is more one model, a model is just the parrot. It’s one component in the agent. You still need systems around that to manage data and run and serve, interact etc. It can theoretically do all that but it all depends on how you build it.
So Claude-X is a model, Claude code is the agent infrastructure.