ChatGPT agent mode: The “little helper” that transformed recruiting & solved parking nightmares

We're gonna start with something that we haven't actually seen on How I AI yet, which is agent mode in ChatGPT.

My use case was with our hiring team. Part of their workflow is to browse through many LinkedIn profile and search for relevant candidates. It takes a lot of time.

Let's talk about the prompt. I'd love for you to go through how you thought about structuring it to make it effective with the agent.

I want a little helper. I'm a recruiter. I want someone who is like me. So I started by telling it, "You're an IT recruiter," and then I described what I want it to do.

I love that you called it your little helper, because don't we all want an AI little helper? [upbeat music] Welcome back to How I AI. I'm Claire Vo, product leader and AI obsessive, here on a mission to help you build better with these new tools. Today, I have Michal Peled from HoneyBook, their Technical Operations Engineer, who's building tons of internal tools and automations to make their team's life easier and reduce friction. Michal's gonna show us some advanced features of ChatGPT, including agent mode, replicate not one, but five of their personas as AI identities, and save me a lot of time on my commute using ChatGPT. I'm really excited about this episode. Let's get to it. This episode is brought to you by Brex. If you're listening to this show, you already know AI is changing how we work in real, practical ways. Brex is bringing that same power to finance. Brex is the intelligent finance platform built for founders. With autonomous agents running in the background, your finance stack basically runs itself. Cards are issued, expenses are filed, and fraud is stopped in real time without you having to think about it. Add Brex's banking solution with a high-yield treasury account, and you've got a system that helps you spend smarter, move faster, and scale with confidence. One in three startups in the US already runs on Brex. You can, too, at brex.com/howiai. Michal, thank you so much for joining How I AI. I'm excited to see what you have to share.

Thank you so much for having me.

We're gonna start with something that we haven't actually seen on How I AI yet, which is agent mode in ChatGPT. And so I'm wondering if you can just go ahead and dive into what was the problem that you were trying to solve, and why was this agent mode, this agentic browsing, the solution to the problem you were having?

Our problem was, um, you know, same as, same as our customers are having. Uh, you have to do your job. You have a job that you really love doing, and you have your proficiencies and, uh, and expertise. However, you spend a lot of your time doing the, the, um, mundane, thoughtless, uh, manual, repeating work in order to do... uh, to get the information that you need. So my use case was with our hiring team, and as a recruiter, when you get a job description that you need to recruit to find candidates for, part of their, part of their, uh, workflow is to, uh, browse through, uh, many LinkedIn profile and search for, uh, relevant candidates that may be, uh, relevant for the job descriptions, and it takes a lot of time. It can be hours of browsing through profiles and going through all of the characteristics that they're looking for. So I wanted to take that load off of them, and, uh, ChatGPT agent mode came just in time. We all talk about what agent is and what agents do and how we can use them. In ChatGPT, it's very, uh, simple to understand. So you just open a chat with ChatGPT, but then you add an instruction and turn it into an agent mode very simply from the toolbar. And once it goes into agent mode, it means that it can take the prompt, or you can actually use specific prompts, to tell it not just to search for information online, but also to perform actions for you. And why did I need it in this case? Because I needed to log in to LinkedIn. I don't want it to just search for profiles, uh, on LinkedIn, just, just profiles that are publicly accessible. That's not the information that I need. So I needed it to log in into LinkedIn, and I needed it to perform search, and I needed it to go through the profiles and, and look for the restrictions that I wanna give it, and those restrictions were provided by the actual, uh, hiring team, that they actually use it as, uh, requirements for potential candidates that they find.