Welcome to 17th issue of AI Agents Simplified. This issue is presented to you by Tabsy
Time to touch some grass everyone!
Last week, I spent some time in Istanbul, a short tourist trip, nothing fancy. But something unexpected happened: I realized just how deep in the "tech-savvy, AI-everywhere" bubble I actually was.
Despite all the tools we’ve built - and let’s be honest, we’ve built a lot - most people don’t use them. Out of everyone I interacted with, only one person used Google Translate to talk to me. One.
It was a wake-up call.
So I shared this experience on Reddit and the comments absolutely exploded. Turns out, I’m not the only one who’s been living in a bubble. People from all over the world chimed in with similar stories. If you’re curious, you can read the post here and I highly recommend going through the replies. They’re honest, surprising, and weirdly comforting.
So here’s what I took away:
Maybe as writers, builders, and curious people, we still have work to do. Not just in making smart tools, but in making them understandable, useful, and worth using for people outside our little circles.
That’s what this week’s post is about. Hope it helps — or at least pops a bubble or two.
New blog post is up!
It’s about how AI agents can turn our chaotic files — from contracts to old receipts — into something way more helpful (and a lot less painful to search through).
Wrote it for curious folks who want to understand how this works, but without the intimidating ML vocabulary.
“Ask away!” — Your laptop has all the answers now.
No one enjoys digging through 74 pages of contract clauses just to find that one sentence you half-remembered.
🤖 Siri, But If It Actually Worked
This issue is sponsored by Tabsy. The AI tool that quietly does what Siri, Spotlight, and 10 billion dollars of Apple R&D still can’t: help you actually find stuff.
It searches your local files by meaning; not just filenames or keywords. You can ask it things like:
“What did I say about budget approvals last quarter?”
“Where’s that insurance document with the updated address?”
“What’s my flight number again?”
It’s local. It’s fast. It’s spooky smart.
Also, it doesn’t randomly say “I found this on the web.” 🙄
🧪 What I’ve Been Learning Lately: Prompting & GTM Engineering
As I’ve been exploring how AI agents work, I’ve started noticing one specific area where their potential really shines — GTM (Go-To-Market) engineering
That intersection between product, marketing, and automation is becoming so much more powerful with agentic tools. Imagine AI agents that can monitor sales pipelines, generate campaign ideas based on product changes, or even write onboarding flows personalized to each user segment — all without needing to ping the dev team every 5 minutes.
But here’s the thing: none of this works without good prompts.
So this week, I took some time to brush up on my Prompt Engineering skills — because writing effective prompts is still the superpower behind any useful agent.
If you're also thinking about building smart tools, or just want to communicate better with AI systems, I highly recommend these courses:
Essentials of Prompt Engineering (by AWS)
Prompt Engineering for Everyone (by IBM)
Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT (by Vanderbilt University)
Advanced Prompt Engineering for Everyone (by Vanderbilt University)
Which one are you taking this weekend? 🧐
P.S.
English isn’t my first language, Persian is. So yes, I get by with a little help from my AI friends. That’s how I make sure what I write sounds smooth, clear and has just the right number of em dashes. (Which is always more than necessary, I know.)
I know it’s kind of obvious when AI helps with writing but honestly, it makes writing way more fun. And if you’re using AI to make your daily life easier - whether it’s translating menus, organizing your desktop, or finally replying to that one unread email - I’d love to hear about it.
Leave a comment and tell me how you’re using AI to make life just a bit less annoying. 👇
Tabsy just blows my mind, I can’t believe how long Apple has waited to integrate conversational AI with Spotlight search so you can find files on your MacBook by just asking for them. It’s funny because Apple promised something like Tabsy three months ago, got sued for false advertising, and had to pull a TV commercial where an iPhone user is shown finding information using context aware search across her whole device’s knowledge ecosystem. Now a tech startup is picking up the slack, kind of embarrassing for them but good for us.
Just sharing, I hope you do not mind.
The True Threat of AI is Global Compute Governance, Job Loss, and Economic Displacement https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/the-true-threat-of-ai-is-global-compute