An Autonomous, Agentic, AI Assistant, Meet Alfred and this is how I built him.

Introduction My people it's me again. This time I have built something fun but mostly useful. I gave building an autonomous agent a chance and it's turning out well. I know it's a cliché but his name is Alfred. The thing is AI agents are no longer a novelty. It all started out as simple chatbots chaining a few prompts together. Now it has evolved into something far capable. These systems that can "reason" (I know it's just a lot of math and not actual reasoning), plan, use tools, and execute multi-step workflows with minimal human intervention...