--- title: Five Questions To Ask Before Creating an AI Agent –... description: Before building an AI agent, consider five questions: what problem it solves, who the intended user is, what information it needs, what its expected output is,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/five-questions-to-ask-before-creating-an-ai-agent-think-like-a-tester-beqjsxfyj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Five Questions To Ask Before Creating an AI Agent – Think Like a Tester | daily.dev og:description: Before building an AI agent, consider five questions: what problem it solves, who the intended user is, what information it needs, what its expected output is,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/five-questions-to-ask-before-creating-an-ai-agent-think-like-a-tester-beqjsxfyj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/BEQjsxFYJ.png og:image:alt: Five Questions To Ask Before Creating an AI Agent – Think Like a Tester og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Five Questions To Ask Before Creating an AI Agent – Think Like a Tester **[Think Like a Tester](https://daily.dev/sources/thinkingtester)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Before building an AI agent, consider five questions: what problem it solves, who the intended user is, what information it needs, what its expected output is, and who will test, monitor, and maintain it. The piece argues that AI's ease of creation tempts teams into building agents that solve no real problem or go unmaintained. It stresses picking a narrow user focus rather than trying to serve everyone, setting clear output guardrails since AI often behaves unpredictably, and treating agents like any other software application requiring ongoing testing and upkeep. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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