I don’t have a job that lets me use any of the new AI tools so I’m a little behind the curve with what’s available. I’m using Gemini from Google to help guide me through building my first agentic search, looking for houses that match my criteria. At the moment the big 3 housing sites all have some features lacking, for example I can ask for detached houses or bungalows, but I can’t ask for detached bungalows. I can’t filter out static caravans, they get returned as bungalows. I’d also like to do something a bit more inventive too like pick properties that need renovation, candidates for “worst house in the best area” type of thing.
So I asked Gemini’s Learning Coach:
I want to know more about AI agents, specifically agents that can search the web and finmd links that match my criteria, specifically property that matches certain criteria.
A bit vague, but it recognised what I wanted. It started with a summary of what it interpreted I was after and then told me the first few steps.
- Understanding AI Agents and Web Searching
- How AI Agents Find Specific Information (Property Criteria)
- Practical Applications: AI Agents for Property Search
Which was a good start. I’ve taken it as far as having it generate some psuedo Python code for the initial scraping.
It’s given me a good overview of the process and a good starting point to create my own agent and have a play.
Bloody hell … it can't even get it's own Python library name right in the code it generates!