Beyond 'Agents': A Better Way to Build with LLMs

​As folks who've been doing research and creating platforms for conversational AI for a decade, lately we've been questioning whether the 'agents' metaphor is really a helpful one or whether it betrays a lack of imagination.

​To explore this further and start a broader dialogue, we’ll each give a talk and then hang around afterwards to chat over pizza + beers, hard seltzers, and sparkling waters.

Event schedule

• ​5pm: Doors open, food, drinks, meet other attendees

• ​6pm: Alan Nichol, CTO & Co-founder of Rasa, will explain how CALM lets you build assistants that are faster, cheaper, more conversational, and more reliable than an 'agent' approach

• ​6:20pm: Ty Dunn, CEO & Co-founder of Continue, will explore how more speculative conceptions like 'async workflows' and 'intelligent infrastructure' are informing the future we are building towards

• ​6:40pm: More drinks, food, discussion of 'agent' alternatives

• ​8pm: Continue the discussion one floor below at ZOË