Agents and Engineers | Agentic AI, Software & Agentic Engineering

Julien Verlaguet is Founder and CEO of SkipLabs, the company building Skipper, a closed-loop coding agent. He created Skip, a reactive programming language, and led the design of Hack, the language Meta developed to run...

Thomas Wiecki, Founder, PyMC Labs, is the author of PyMC, one of the most popular frameworks for Bayesian modeling, and the founder of PyMC Labs, a Bayesian AI consultancy. He holds a PhD in Computational Cognitive...

Dan is joined by Hugo Bowne-Anderson and Doug Turnbull. Hugo is an independent data and AI scientist who has advised and taught teams at Netflix, Meta, and Amazon. Doug is an independent consultant and search expert...

Paul Everitt is a Python and Web Developer Advocate at JetBrains. He previously co-founded Zope Corporation, helped bootstrap the Python Software Foundation and Plone Foundation, and served as a US Navy officer who...

Dan and Niels Bantilan discuss how AI agents are changing Niels's work on two open-source projects, Flyte and Pandera. Flyte began as an MLOps orchestrator and is evolving into an AI runtime for the code, compute, and...

Dan and Jacob Young discuss what technical due diligence looks like when software teams use coding agents. Best practices have not settled, so Jacob looks less for a particular model or tool than for convergence...

Dan and John Berryman discuss why today’s terminal- and IDE-centered agent harnesses are too narrow. John argues that agents should be able to see and act across the applications, websites, files, and physical...

Sheamus McGovern founded ODSC roughly twelve years ago and now splits his time between the conference business and a role as venture partner and Head of AI at Cortical Ventures. His book, The AI Skill Flip, came out of...

Matthew Rocklin is an open-source software developer best known for creating Dask, a Python library for scalable parallel and distributed computing. He has contributed to projects including Toolz, SymPy, and Theano...

Dan and Jonathan Bown open with the talk Jonathan gave at ODSC, "Practical Agent Ops: From POC to Prod with MLflow 3.0." MLflow 3.0 arrived last summer as the first stable release built for generative AI rather than...

Dan and Greg open with how agentic development has changed since the early days of Copilot. At the time, Greg was at GitHub, and he saw AI mostly help with boilerplate and editor completions. Cursor-style agents were...

Dan and Eleanor open by discussing how fast software engineering has changed. In the last six months, Eleanor's practice flipped from treating AI as a messy assistant that needs close supervision to building systems...

Dan, Angie, and Demetrios explore how the latest frontier models have turned software engineering into something closer to managing a team of agents, and why governance, tokenomics, and design now matter more than...

Dan and Ian Stokes-Rees, founder and CEO of PNI AI Studio, open by discussing the thesis of Ian's company: an opinionated stack of open-source tools wrapped in agentic AI so business analysts, managers, and finance...

Dan and Greg discuss Revise Robotics, where Greg serves as founding engineer building robotic systems that refurbish discarded corporate laptops for donation. The episode opens with a description of how AI vision models...