From coding to Knowledge work agents — Karan Vaidya, Composio
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An outreach AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → can send technically valid emails while still making a poor business decision. Karan Vaidya, cofounder and CTO of Composio, uses his own recruiting-outreach experience in this talk to explain why checking successful execution is insufficient for knowledge-work agents.
His argument is that business workflows also need controls over whether an action should happen. He advocates enforcing boundaries outside the agent, where they do not depend on the model remembering an instruction. This is especially consequential for actions such as sending messages, where a later correction cannot simply undo delivery.
Terms in this piece · Glossary
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
context window — The maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.
