AI Agents Are Moving from R&D to Reality — Are You Ready?

A fireside chat between Euro and Thomas about Agents, their challenges and their future

In this talk, I will discuss both practical issues and technical fundamentals of coding agents. This will include both the promise of what coding agents may be able to do if they are implemented properly, what tasks they can do well now, some challenges in using the appropriately, and some of the challenges that we need to solve to make them more effective -- file localization, file editing, planning, error recovery, and "good taste". I will also give a few demos of our open-source OpenHands toolkit (https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands) to illustrate each of the points.

A overview of Open AI's agents named Swarm

Why can't my agent perform actions on my behalf? How is tool calling different from retrieval? How do I test my LLM tools? How do I evaluate different model's ability to call tools?

These and many more questions were some of the main points we've been figuring out as we've been building Arcade AI. This talk will focus on the approaches we tried and the approaches we found that worked.

If you want to or are building an Agent that can call tools, this willll be a good talk for you.