Agent orchestration

Aug 17, 2026

Reading Group July 2026 - Loop Engineering

This session provides an in-depth exploration of Loop Engineering, a paradigm shift from manual AI prompting to designing autonomous systems that orchestrate AI agents. Speakers share practical experiences, from building production-grade platforms with automated code generation and adversarial AI reviews to experimental loop structures and foundational infrastructure layers. Key discussions address challenges like managing token costs, preventing agent chaos, and implementing robust verification mechanisms for industrializing software development.

Aug 13, 2026

When to Build Your Own Agent Harness | Harrison Chase, LangChain

Harrison Chase, co-founder of LangChain, delves into the critical role of the 'harness' in LLM agents, explaining how it orchestrates models and context. He covers customizing harnesses with middleware and sub-agents, the trade-offs between off-the-shelf and custom solutions for in- and out-of-distribution tasks, and the importance of evaluations and observability for continuous agent improvement. The discussion culminates in the 'data flywheel' concept and the `LangSmith Engine` for automating agent intelligence through iterative refinement.

Jul 11, 2026

From Writing Code to Designing Systems: How the Developer Role is Changing — Chris Noring, Microsoft

This talk introduces a paradigm shift in software development, moving developers from pure code producers to system designers and agent orchestrators. It details a new workflow leveraging GitHub Copilot CLI, custom Copilot agents, and explicit guardrails like `agents.md` and skills. The focus is on how to decompose complex problems, delegate implementation to AI, and encode architectural standards and constraints directly, enabling higher consistency, quality, and accelerated delivery through a "human-in-the-loop" delegation model.

Jul 09, 2026

The Golden Age of AI Engineering — Alexander Embiricos & Romain Huet & Peter Steinberger, OpenAI

OpenAI's Romain Huet and Alexander Embiricos, joined by Peter Steinberger, outline the explosive progress of Codex at Dev Day 2024. They highlight the shift from manual coding to managing autonomous agents, enabled by rapid model iteration (every 6 weeks), open-source developer tools, and optimizations for cost-effectiveness ($1/M input tokens) and blazing inference speed (750 tokens/sec). The discussion centers on empowering AI engineers, not replacing them, by evolving agent capabilities, fostering an open ecosystem, and addressing future challenges like seamless local/cloud task execution and human attention as the new bottleneck in agent orchestration.

Jun 29, 2026

The Future Is Domain-Specific Agents - Justin Schroeder, StandardAgents

Justin Schroeder argues for a paradigm shift in AI agent development from monolithic, context-inflated agents (inheritance) to modular, domain-specific agents (DSAs) that operate through composition. He explains how DSAs offer superior token efficiency, cost savings with smaller models, enhanced security through capability limits, and better scalability, predicting their widespread adoption by 2027 as a solution to rising AI costs and the need for practical, customer-facing AI.

Feb 06, 2026

Codex launch & OpenClaw/Moltbook chaos: This week in AI agents

The panel discusses OpenAI's new Codex application, framing it as a necessary 'table stakes' move in the competitive AI coding agent market rather than a game-changer. The conversation pivots to the importance of agent orchestration as the next frontier for value creation and monetization. They also explore the Moltbook (OpenClaw) phenomenon—a social network for AI agents—debating whether it's a valuable sociological experiment or a mere novelty, while highlighting the significant security vulnerabilities and practical hurdles it exposes.