There are two ways to build AI agents: 1. The way that looks good in a demo. 2. The way that makes money. Most people start with #1. They build something impressive. They record a demo. They post it online and watch the views pile up. Zhu Liang built both. And in a recent sharing at The Stage, and he shared his take-aways from building agents these last 3 years. The Agent that Makes its Own Money This was a really interesting exploration that Zhu Liang did over the past few years. Does the...

When Farhad , the speaker at last Friday's Co-work Friday, was a consultant, he was part of a team building a large enterprise company from scratch, and building a digitally native platform on top of that. The ambition was large: own the entire customer journey, from the "why" all the way through booking and transaction. He spent years reflecting on his experience on that project. He initially thought it was a technical problem. Then he realised it was a translation problem. And then he built...

Nobody wanted to use my Telegram bot, Rex ( -> https://rex.sq-collective.com/ ). I built it. I was proud of it. Rex could generate invoices, book calendars, check for double bookings. It could create Luma events, generate cover art, send drip invites, update descriptions. It even did Luma event invites based on "interest level" through the embedding database I built for Kai ( -> https://kai.sq-collective.com/ ) My staff opened it once, got a confusing response, and went back to doing things...