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Let's talk for a minute about AI agents. You can think of them as digital virtual employees who are tasked with performing certain jobs. In fact, you can make a fairly good analogy between AI agents running around your network and human workers.
Back in the days before Zoom, I used to do a lot of business traveling. At the time, I had a cat named Sammy. I had to leave her home whenever I went on one of these trips. After her first experience in a kennel (which did not go well), I vowed to never kennel her for a trip ever again.
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Instead, I hired a friend of a friend to come into my apartment a few times a day to feed her, play with her, and keep her company. Even though this practice was necessary, I always had some big worries. First, Sammy was not an outside cat. What if the cat caregiver let her out? What if the cat caregiver decided to muck around with my stuff?
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