Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Sending AI agents off while you sleep sounds ideal, but without active steering, it often leads to wasted tokens and dead ends.
Ang Jiang from Anthropic breaks down why background agent workflows are still hit-or-miss, and why finding the right form factor to guide and steer autonomous agents is the next big problem to solve.
Watch the full Builders episode.
Sending AI agents off while you sleep sounds ideal, but without active steering, it often leads to wasted tokens and dead ends.
Ang Jiang from Anthropic breaks down why background agent workflows are still hit-or-miss, and why finding the right form factor to guide and steer autonomous agents is the next big problem to solve.
Watch the full Builders episode.










