What Are AI Agents? — Interview Cheat Sheet

A print-ready, 2-page A4 interview cheat sheet distilled from my AI-agents video.

Front: chatbot vs agent, the Think–Act–Observe loop, tools as the permission boundary, why agents fail and how guardrails work — under 180 words, plus the agent-loop diagram and an analogy (an advisor with the door unlocked) that makes it stick. Ends with the one-liner interviewers love: an LLM in a loop, with tools, working toward a goal.

Back: the 6 questions GenAI interviews actually open with — chatbot vs agent, walk me through the loop, how tools are chosen, why agents fail, how to make them safe, and a full worked example (the cheap-flight task) — each with a complete answer, plus 3 misconception traps.

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