Tribal Dungeons of Global Shipping: AI Agents at Global Scale — Dmitry Buykin, Maersk
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A sequence of screenshots can show an employee where to click without specifying enough for an 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 → to complete the same job reliably. Maersk's conference talk describes translating such procedures into instructions that establish when work may start, which records and systems it involves, and how completion is checked. Recovery steps explain what to do when execution fails.
The shipping company's account places much of the engineering effort in revising these procedures with the people who own them. A correction becomes useful when it changes executable behavior. That makes process knowledge and feedback part of the system being maintained, alongside the software that runs the agent.
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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.
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