NEW: ChatGPT Launches the World's Easiest Agent Builder—Get the Inside Scoop Plus 12 Prompts to Build

BREAKING: OpenAI is about to launch Agent Builder—a drag-and-drop interface that lets you build AI agents without writing code.

Put simply: 800 million people are about to get the ability to build AI agents for the first time.

Based on early leaks, this build looks polished to me. You’ll drag nodes onto a canvas, connect them with arrows, define logic visually, and wire up external tools through MCP (Model Context Protocol). Very clean, very simple.

ChatGPT is adding enterprise-friendly guardrails too: prompt injection protection, content moderation, and other security features that used to require custom implementation.

At launch ChatGPT will be immediately the biggest agent builder on the planet, with 100x or more scale vs existing tools like n8n or Zapier. OpenAI knows this.

But there’s a problem OpenAI isn’t talking about. There’s a substantial gap between building an agent that works once and building one that works reliably in production.

I’ve spent the last year helping build and shepherd production agents at large companies. I’ve seen the same mistakes repeated over and over again. I don’t want you to make them, and that’s why I’m writing this piece today.

Put simply, handing everyone the hands-on power to build agents without any kind of build guidance is an invitation to chaos.

This piece is designed to close the agent knowledge gap before it becomes a crisis in your organization.

What’s inside:

• Seven hands-on principles for building production agents, based on hard-won experience at scale—and suitable for beginner builders

• A set of 12 design prompts you can use to think through your specific use case systematically, so you don’t have to figure out the build on your own

• Practical guidance on the architectural shift from workflows to agents

• Why dumber agents sometimes win (yes!)

The principles come from things I wish someone had told me before I learned them the expensive way. The prompts are structured conversations that force you to confront the right questions before you build: What does success look like? What happens when things fail? How will you know the output is correct?

Agent building is about to be democratized. What you build in the next few months will set patterns—good or bad—that scale across your organization.

Good luck with your new agent-building powers, and build thoughtfully!