From Zero to AI Agents That Do The Work
How to build them and put them to work. A book by Floris Knol, in Dutch and in English, as paperback and as e-book.
This book shows how to build AI agents that do work while you sleep. It starts with one task you hand over. It ends with an organization that has a goal nobody has to restate every morning, a budget that can run out, and a memory.
Everything in it happened and can be checked, including what went wrong and what it cost. And you do not have to be a programmer.
What is inside
27 chapters
From one task to an organization, step by step.
An assignment per chapter
You do it yourself, on a sample administration that comes with the book.
No programmer needed
The book is written for people who want the work done, not for people who want to program.
Checkable
Everything happened, including what went wrong and what it cost.
Along the way you pass
- The tools first, then the thing
- What fell away, and what did not
- “Yes, but you are a programmer”
- Facts, not opinions
- Attainable before valuable
- Multipliers
- And if you did it a thousand times?
- Why are you still doing that yourself?
- Checking itself
- Speed is not comfort
- Not on disk, never happened
- Fratsen
- Mistakes are your best teacher
- My tools lied to me
- The second time
- Look for the key, not the doors
- Zero dependencies
- The flywheel
- What an agent lacks
- Limits, and who signs
- Improving without a release
- Access is the scarce thing
- Lock-in is a design choice
- Taking part in the formal world
- When everyone can build
- Where we stand now
- Where this is going
Four editions
All four are sold in bookshops: see where to buy the book.
Audiobook coming soon
The book is also coming as an audiobook, in Dutch and in English. Want to hear when it is out?
Let me knowExtras for the book
The book comes with a sample administration on which you do the assignments. That, and whatever is added later, will get a place here to download.