Actor model

20+ Years in Tech: Things We Wish We Knew Sooner • Daniel Terhorst-North & Kevlin Henney

20+ Years in Tech: Things We Wish We Knew Sooner • Daniel Terhorst-North & Kevlin Henney

In a reflective and forward-looking conversation, Daniel Terhorst-North and Kevlin Henney explore the evolution of software development over the past 20 years and predict the key challenges and innovations for the next 20. They delve into the philosophy of programming language design, the critical need for hardware-sympathetic programming, the untapped potential of concurrency models like CSP and the Actor Model, and the future of user interfaces and decentralized technology.

When Agents Hire Their Own Team: Inside Hypermode’s Concierge // Ryan Fox-Tyler

When Agents Hire Their Own Team: Inside Hypermode’s Concierge // Ryan Fox-Tyler

Ryan Fox-Tyler from Hypermode explains their philosophy of empowering AI agents to design and deploy other agents. He introduces Concierge, an agent that builds other agents, and details the underlying actor-based runtime built for scalability, fault tolerance, and efficient, event-driven execution of thousands of parallel agent instances.