Might 8 AI Codecon was an enormous success. We had superb audio system and content material. We additionally had over 9,000 dwell attendees and one other 12,000 who signed up to have the ability to view the content material in a while the O’Reilly studying platform. (Right here’s a put up with video excerpts and a few of my takeaways.)
So we’re doing it once more. The subsequent AI Codecon is scheduled for September 9. Our focus this time goes to be on agentic coding. Now I do know that Simon Willison and others have derided “agentic” as a advertising and marketing buzzword, and that nobody may even agree on what it means (Simon has collected dozens of competing definitions), however regardless of the time period involves imply to most individuals, the truth is one thing all of us have to return to grips with. We now have LLMs with specialised system prompts, utilizing instruments, chained collectively in pipelines or working in parallel, working in loops, and modifying their environments. That looks as if a reasonably good start line for a working definition.
Within the September 9 AI Codecon, we’ll be concentrating on 4 vital frontiers of agentic improvement:
- Agentic interfaces: Shifting past chat UX to classy agent interactions. New paradigms don’t simply require new infrastructure; additionally they allow new interfaces. We’re seeking to spotlight improvements in AI interfaces, particularly as agentic AI functions prolong far past easy chat.
- Instrument-to-tool workflows: How brokers chain throughout environments to finish complicated duties. As an previous Unix/Linux head, I really like the thought of pipelines (and now networks) of small cooperating applications. We at the moment are reinventing that type of network-enabled strategy to functions for AI.
- Background coding brokers: Asynchronous, autonomous code era in manufacturing. When AI duties begin working within the background, count on both magic or mayhem. We’d want the previous, and need to present the chopping fringe of how you can construct safer, extra dependable brokers.
- MCP and agent protocols: The infrastructure enabling the agentic net. Whereas the primary era of AI functions have been centralized monoliths, we’re satisfied that the agentic future is one in every of cooperating AIs, interoperating not solely with functions designed for people but in addition with AI-native endpoints designed to be consumed by AI brokers. MCP is a good begin, nevertheless it’s removed from the top of protocols for agent-to-agent communication. (See my put up “Disclosures. I Do Not Suppose That Phrase Means What You Suppose It Means.” for an account of how communication protocols allow participatory markets. I’m tremendous enthusiastic about the best way that AI is creating new alternatives for builders and entrepreneurs that aren’t capital-intensive, winner-takes-all races just like the preliminary race for chatbot supremacy. These alternatives come from the community protocols that allow cooperating AIs.)
The first convention observe might be organized very like the Might occasion: a curated assortment of fireplace chats with senior technical executives, sensible engineers, and entrepreneurs; sensible talks on the brand new instruments, workflows, and hacks which might be shaping the rising self-discipline of agentic AI; demos of how skilled builders are utilizing the brand new instruments to supercharge their productiveness, their progressive functions, and person interfaces; and lightning talks that are available from our name for proposals (see under). We’ll even have a set of in-depth tutorials on separate days to be able to go deeper if you’d like. You possibly can join right here. The mainstage occasion is free. Tutorials can be found to O’Reilly subscribers and may also be bought à la carte—trial memberships may even get you within the door. 🙂 The separate demo showcase might be sponsored (and thus free).
Name for proposals
Do you may have a narrative to share about how you’re utilizing brokers to construct progressive and efficient AI-powered experiences? We need to hear it. The AI Codecon program might be a mixture of invited talks and your proposals, so we’re asking you to submit your thought for a fast five-minute lightning speak about cutting-edge work. We aren’t on the lookout for high-level discussions; we would like battle tales, demos of merchandise and workflows, progressive functions, and accounts of latest instruments which have modified how you’re employed. You (collectively) are inventing the longer term at a livid charge. We’d love to listen to about work that may make individuals say “wow!” and rush to be taught extra. Your objective ought to be to make the rising future occur sooner by sharing what you’ve realized.
After studying your proposal, we might ask you to current it as proposed, modify it, broaden it into an extended speak, be part of a dialogue panel, or seem in our related demo day program.
Matters we’re all for embody:
- UI/UX—How are you or your organization exploring agentic interfaces and transferring past chatbot UX?
- The way you’re utilizing brokers as we speak—Are you handing off whole duties to brokers? What duties are you handing off, and the way are you integrating the brokers’ work into the SDLC?
- Your tool-to-tool workflows—How are you chaining brokers throughout environments and providers to finish duties end-to-end?
- Background coding brokers—What’s rising from extra asynchronous and autonomous code era, and the place is that this headed?
- MCP and the way forward for the online—How are agentic protocols unlocking progressive workflows and experiences?
- Shock us. With the market transferring this quick, chances are you’ll be doing one thing superb that doesn’t match this system as we’re envisioning it as we speak however that the AI coding group wants to listen to about. Don’t be afraid to paint outdoors the strains.
We’re additionally nonetheless all for listening to about subjects we explored in our earlier name for proposals:
- What has modified about the way you code, what you’re employed on, and the instruments you employ?
- Are we working towards a brand new improvement stack? How are your architectures and patterns altering as you progress towards AI-native functions?
- How is AI altering the make-up and workload of your dev groups?
- What have you ever performed to take care of high quality requirements with AI-generated code?
- What varieties of duties are you taking over that have been beforehand too time-consuming to perform?
- What issues have you ever encountered that you just want others had informed you about if you have been beginning out in your journey?
- What sorts of enjoyable initiatives are you taking over in your free time?
So submit your proposal for a chat by July 18. And you probably have a product you’d wish to demo as a part of our sponsored demo showcase, please tell us at AI-Engineering@oreilly.com.
Thanks!