07 / Ways of Working
AFK
Setting the agent going and walking away, or away from keyboard. Efficient when the work is well specified and cheap to verify. Expensive when it is neither.
How you’ll hear it
“Can it run overnight?”
“For this task, yes. The output is easy to check in the morning.”
Avoid
Leaving an agent unattended on work that is hard to verify.
The longer version
AFK, away from keyboard, means setting an agent going and walking away. It works when the task is well specified, the environment is safe and the result is cheap to check.