Nov 05, 2025

GenAI Grows Up: Building Production-Ready Agents on the JVM • Rod Johnson • GOTO 2025

Rod Johnson explains the high failure rate of enterprise GenAI projects, attributing it to the misuse of the technology and a disconnect from established software engineering principles. He argues for a paradigm shift away from Python-centric approaches towards the JVM, introducing Embabel, a framework designed to build reliable, testable, and domain-integrated AI agents by tackling non-determinism and leveraging the strengths of the enterprise Java ecosystem.

Sep 15, 2025

Building Multi-Player AI Systems (and why it’s SO hard)

MeshAgent introduces a multiplayer AI paradigm, shifting from single-user systems to collaborative 'Rooms' where teams of humans and agents can work together with shared context. This talk explores the platform's architecture, developer tools, and its approach to solving real-world collaborative tasks.