Building the hot new AI agent use-case

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“… And then a DRAGON appeared and we called SPIDER MAN and went to the TOY STORE for CHRISTMAS CANDY.”

This is a sentence that came out of my kid’s mouth tonight. Exact quote.

Kids have huge imaginations. Untethered by the rules and proprietary of grownups, they love to interact with the world. Touch it, explore it and shape it.

It’s one reason why they love stories — at least at a young age. Stories are a type of play. For my son Tom, story-time is an interactive time. He touches the books, counts the birds on the page, asks questions about the faces and learns the story.

For Tom, stories get input. He’s in control and they evolve with his ideas.
They’re co-shaped and imagined on the fly.

I’ve been wanting to build something anyway!

Truth is, I wasn’t all that happy with the format for the first three withAgents.ai newsletter issues. I think they’re great content and super informative for those who read them (I’m biased, I wrote them) but I don’t really want to do a news summary digest newsletter. I want to build things.

I was showcasing how others are building things but, again, I [emphasis] want to build things. AI Agents, to be specific.

So I decided to tackle bedtime stories.
Could I make something that my kid could use to bring storytelling to life?

Check out the popular ‘Autonomous Agents’ diagram by Anthropic below.

This is how most agentic architectures work, in simple terms.

And this is how an AI Agent for bedtime stories might work.

Simple enough, right?

This begins my journey into building WDTR

Early Friday morning last week (I often tinker and write or code in the pre-work, pre-breakfast hours) I started using AI to prototype my ideas for a bedtime story maker as rapidly as possible.

I’ve been doing that since — including over the last weekend during nap-times for Tom — and progress is going great.

But that’s enough writing, see it come to life here:

I hope you’ll follow along and please share in your socials if you find value.
It’ll help this keep moving.

Thank you.

CG