What even is an AI Agent! (The Standup)

Watch the Reward Ceremony Live! July 26th 10AM PST on #sponsored 📌 Chapters: 00:00:00 - , drama & intro 00:02:00 - Building OpenCode: terminal AI agents 00:03:00 - Reward Ceremony - July 26 10AM PST 00:03:18 - Agent architecture basics explained 00:04:08 - What is an AI Agent? 00:05:00 - Prompt engineering and tool calling 00:06:10 - OpenCode UX and mobile plans 00:07:27 - Why OpenCode runs agents locally 00:08:34 - Vision for mobile remote dev workflows 00:09:15 - The reality of build opencode 00:10:10 - Claude vs Opus vs others 00:13:32 - Tool usage & LSP integration 00:14:20 - LSP tool feedback loop 00:17:00 - Claude is best at calling tools 00:18:10 - Prompt tuning limitations and expectations 00:22:20 - Modeling agent loops with tool calls 00:24:40 - Why building a real agent isn’t just weekend work 00:26:20 - Security tradeoffs in early development 00:28:30 - Loop management & lossy compression 00:29:40 - Session design & managing context 00:30:40 - Parallel sessions and subagents 00:33:20 - Adam banned from Twitch by his cofounder 00:34:20 - OpenCode & development connection 00:35:00 - What surprised them building an agent 00:36:30 - Why TUIs are hard compared to web 00:37:30 - Layering, pixel constraints, UI struggles 00:38:30 - Final laughs & wrap-up 00:39:00 - Plug for OpenCode: 00:40:00 - Outro: still no clue how agents work, but fun ride ⸻ Topics Covered: • AI agents in terminal environments • OpenCode’s CLI-first agent approach • Loop-based tool calling in LLMs • Integrating LSP feedback into agents • Prompt engineering & model tool awareness • Evaluating agents: benchmarks & metrics • Local vs remote dev environments • Designing for low-friction agent UX • Safety, permission models & sandboxing • The tradeoffs of TUIs vs web UIs • Session design, compression & memory limits • Humor, Twitch drama & voice AI characters