Frank Long of Coatue describes an investment firm as a process that turns internal and external context into decisions about what to buy, how much and when. He argues that agents need reliable access to the information people use, including historical decisions and risk constraints.
Using Korean-language news as an example, he breaks the work into collection, filtering, translation, extraction and cross-checkingWorkflow automation uses software or AI to complete a connected sequence of routine steps with less manual effort.. Each step can use deterministic code, statistical models, language models or people, depending on the task.
Long argues that these workflows become branching systems with many choices to evaluate. He recommends defining measurable subproblemsEvaluation is the systematic assessment of a system's behaviour or results against explicit criteria. and retaining human judgmentHuman-in-the-loop AI keeps a person involved in reviewing, correcting, approving, or guiding an AI system's work. where it is useful, rather than automating for its own sake.
Watch on YouTube
