Show Notes
AI agents don’t need to be complicated, fully autonomous systems running 24/7. Watch full episode on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BnuHjgKXGM&t=523s
In this conversation, I sit down with Alexis Fernandez to understand what AI agents actually are, how they differ from regular AI chats, skills and custom instructions and most importantly, how to build one that genuinely helps you.
Then we build one live. In less than 15 minutes, we create Vera, an AI teammate designed to help me think, critique product decisions, support vibe coding, and bring technical expertise into my workflow.
Alexis is not a designer by training and not an engineer by training. He spent his career in operations and systems, and has spent the last two years building with AI. He now helps others build with it, and works on the infrastructure that gets multiple agents to collaborate, hold memory, and stay out of the way until they're needed. He's the founder of Alem.
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🔗 Free AI Team Starter Kit (everything Alexis used in this episode) https://freebies.alem.to/ai-team-star...
🔗 Build Your AI Team Bootcamp, 3 days, 29 September to 1 October,, 90 minutes a day https://bootcamp.alem.to
🔗 Alexis on LinkedIn / alexis-alem
🔗 Alem https://alem.to
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🚀 Built a product as a designer? Want to share it? Get in touch with Ellie / rastian
🔗 Find Us on LinkedIn / aidesignerclub
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