Giving AI Agents "Eyes"
EmbarrassedEgg1268 · reddit · 2026-07-10
The author argues that while many agents still rely on a "text input + tool calling" mode, this forces users to lossily translate real-world problems into text. Especially in scenarios like maintenance, claims, quality inspection, and diagnostics, video/images are often far more useful than descriptions.
The post emphasizes that integrating visual input into agents used to be a massive infrastructure project involving capture, storage, transcoding, calling vision models, and writing structured results back to a CRM/ticket/database. Now, specialized tools are emerging for this. Developers define fields, users upload video/images/audio/PDFs via an app-less link, and the system returns structured JSON or a webhook—essentially giving agents "eyes."
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