Might 8 AI Codecon was an enormous success. We had wonderful audio system and content material. We additionally had over 9,000 reside attendees and one other 12,000 who signed up to have the ability to view the content material afterward 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 fact 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 like a fairly good place to begin for a working definition.
Within the September 9 AI Codecon, we’ll be concentrating on 4 crucial 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 trying to spotlight improvements in AI interfaces, particularly as agentic AI purposes prolong far past easy chat.
- Software-to-tool workflows: How brokers chain throughout environments to finish complicated duties. As an previous Unix/Linux head, I like the concept of pipelines (and now networks) of small cooperating applications. We at the moment are reinventing that type of network-enabled method to purposes for AI.
- Background coding brokers: Asynchronous, autonomous code technology in manufacturing. When AI duties begin working within the background, anticipate both magic or mayhem. We’d choose the previous, and need to present the reducing fringe of methods to construct safer, extra dependable brokers.
- MCP and agent protocols: The infrastructure enabling the agentic internet. Whereas the primary technology of AI purposes have been centralized monoliths, we’re satisfied that the agentic future is certainly one of cooperating AIs, interoperating not solely with purposes designed for people but in addition with AI-native endpoints designed to be consumed by AI brokers. MCP is a good begin, however it’s removed from the tip of protocols for agent-to-agent communication. (See my put up “Disclosures. I Do Not Assume That Phrase Means What You Assume 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 hearth chats with senior technical executives, sensible engineers, and entrepreneurs; sensible talks on the brand new instruments, workflows, and hacks which are shaping the rising self-discipline of agentic AI; demos of how skilled builders are utilizing the brand new instruments to supercharge their productiveness, their modern purposes, and consumer interfaces; and lightning talks that are available in from our name for proposals (see under). We’ll even have a collection of in-depth tutorials on separate days so as to go deeper in order for you. You’ll be able to join right here. The mainstage occasion is free. Tutorials can be found to O’Reilly subscribers and will also be bought à la carte—trial memberships may also get you within the door. 🙂 The separate demo showcase might be sponsored (and thus free).
Name for proposals
Do you have got a narrative to share about how you’re utilizing brokers to construct modern 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 discuss cutting-edge work. We aren’t searching for high-level discussions; we would like battle tales, demos of merchandise and workflows, modern purposes, and accounts of latest instruments which have modified how you’re employed. You (collectively) are inventing the longer term at a livid price. We’d love to listen to about work that may make folks say “wow!” and rush to be taught extra. Your objective ought to be to make the rising future occur quicker by sharing what you’ve realized.
After studying your proposal, we might ask you to current it as proposed, modify it, increase it into an extended speak, be part of a dialogue panel, or seem in our related demo day program.
Subjects we’re excited by embody:
- UI/UX—How are you or your organization exploring agentic interfaces and transferring past chatbot UX?
- The way you’re utilizing brokers right this moment—Are you handing off total 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 technology, and the place is that this headed?
- MCP and the way forward for the online—How are agentic protocols unlocking modern workflows and experiences?
- Shock us. With the market transferring this quick, chances are you’ll be doing one thing wonderful that doesn’t match this system as we’re envisioning it right this moment however that the AI coding group wants to listen to about. Don’t be afraid to paint exterior the traces.
We’re additionally nonetheless excited by 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 utilize?
- Are we working towards a brand new improvement stack? How are your architectures and patterns altering as you progress towards AI-native purposes?
- How is AI altering the make-up and workload of your dev groups?
- What have you ever completed to take care of high quality requirements with AI-generated code?
- What sorts of duties are you taking up that had been beforehand too time-consuming to perform?
- What issues have you ever encountered that you simply want others had instructed you about whenever you had been beginning out in your journey?
- What sorts of enjoyable initiatives are you taking up in your free time?
So submit your proposal for a chat by July 18. And in case you 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!
