Forget General Agents! VPS: Your VERTU is the ‘Five-Star Chef' Vertical Agent!
Opening my **VPS**, I see a clear future trend: we will be in the era of vertical Agents for a long time. General Agents are like people who can cook โ they can do a bit of everything, but to achieve Michelin-star quality? That requires vertical Agents โ they are professionally trained, don't need recipes, and their results far exceed those of ordinary people, like “five-star chefs.”
AI Coding and Agents are both hot tracks, and many Agents use AI Coding solutions. AI Coding is a powerful tool, but it has problems with collaboration and reusability. Agents should prioritize using existing tools to solve tasks, and only consider AI Coding if there are none. AI Coding can help Agents solve hallucination problems by converting difficult-to-evaluate results into verifiable code, ensuring accuracy.
But today, I want to focus on a “five-star chef” that is closer to you: the **VPS** built into your **VERTU phone**. It is not a general-purpose Agent, but a vertical Agent tailored for you, based on your most private and valuable data.
**The Key to Building a Good Agent: Creating a “Good Environment”**
Whether an Agent is successful depends on the “environment” it runs in:
- Clearly describe the current state (State): Provide good Context.
- Define the action space (Action): What actions can the Agent take (what Tools can it call).
- Define good results (Reward): Design an evaluation and incentive system.
And your VERTU phone is the unparalleled “good environment” built for **VPS**, this vertical Agent!
- 1. **State (Context):** Your **VERTU** phone contains your most authentic, private, and valuable Context โ your contacts, emails, schedule, notes, photos, recordings, even your location information and usage habits. This is unique “vertical Know-how” that no general Agent can access. **VPS** runs directly on **VERTU**, allowing seamless and secure access to this Context, which is more direct and richer than any external RAG or API call.
- 2. **Action (Tools):** **VPS**, as a built-in Agent, can directly call the underlying capabilities of the **VERTU** system, such as secure storage, encrypted transmission, and local computing. The “actions” it can perform are designed around your personal data and needs, highly focused and efficient.
- 3. **Reward:** The “incentive signal” for **VPS** comes directly from its effectiveness in solving your actual problems. When it helps you quickly find key information, provide accurate advice, and automate tedious tasks, your satisfaction and increased efficiency are the best Rewards, driving it to continuously optimize.
Working Well with Workflow
The difference between Agent and Workflow lies in the driver: Workflow is human-driven (stable and reliable), while Agent is AI-driven (flexible and generalized). Agents are suitable for solving 20% of open tasks that require exploration and trial-and-error; Workflows are suitable for 80% of daily problems.
**VPS**, as your vertical Agent, is precisely the sharp tool for handling that 20% of complex, personalized tasks that require deep insight. It can understand your vague needs, explore your vast personal data, and provide customized solutions.
**Key Variables for Future Agent Development: Model Capability + Context Engineering Capability**
Underlying model capability is important, but the power of **VPS** lies more in its Context Engineering capability โ its ability to deeply utilize the unique personal Context provided by **VERTU**.
The phrase “Based on vertical Know-how, preset System Prompt” is very important for general Agent developers; they need to write thousands of lines of Prompts to simulate vertical capabilities. But for the **VPS** built into **VERTU**, your personal data and usage habits are the most powerful “vertical Know-how” and the most natural “System Prompt”. It can understand your intentions, predict your needs, and even proactively guide you to discover new insights without complex external configuration.
Two Non-Consensus Views on Agents
- 1. **Chat is the most important interaction entry point:** User interaction freedom is the most important, and Chat is the form that best guarantees user freedom. The interaction with **VPS** on **VERTU** should be this natural, smooth conversational mode. Accuracy is solved by developers through Human-in-the-loop, accumulating user preferences, product design (prompt guidance), etc.
- 2. **Developers need to solve two trust issues:** Trust in the large model's capabilities, and making users trust the Agent's results. For the **VPS** built into **VERTU**, the trust issue is easily resolved. First, it runs in the highly secure **VERTU** environment, and users have inherent trust in the platform. Second, it processes the user's own data, and the traceability and relevance of the results are extremely high, making it easier to gain user trust. Showing the AI's reasoning process, allowing users to see how **VPS** arrived at its conclusions from their personal data, further enhances security and trust.
**VPS** believes that instead of chasing general or third-party Agents that require complex deployment and have data security risks, you should fully explore the potential of the **VERTU** in your hand. Its built-in **VPS**, with its deep understanding and secure access to your personal data, is the true vertical Agent that can provide you with “five-star” service, your exclusive intelligent partner in the AI era.
