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Underwriting Assist - A Multi Agent System // Somya Rai | Maria Zhang // Agents in Production 2025

Underwriting Assist - A Multi Agent System // Somya Rai | Maria Zhang // Agents in Production 2025

Maria Zhang, CEO of Palona AI, and Somya Rai, Principal AI Engineer at EXL, discuss the architecture, scaling, memory management, and cost optimization of multi-agent systems in their respective domains of restaurants and insurance. They explore practical challenges, such as real-world bottlenecks and regulatory compliance, and share their technical stacks, including LangGraph, Ray, and NVIDIA platforms, for building robust and efficient agentic solutions.

Why You Should Care About Observability in LLM Workflows

Why You Should Care About Observability in LLM Workflows

An inside look at AlwaysCool.ai's journey from simple GPT wrappers to a production-ready agentic infrastructure. This talk covers the evolution from synchronous tools to asynchronous, multi-step flows orchestrated by LangGraph, the critical role of OpenTelemetry for compliance and observability, and the architectural patterns of using FastAPI to serve centralized AI agents.

Why SW Architecture is Mostly Communication • David Whitney, Ian Cooper & Hannes Lowette • GOTO 2025

Why SW Architecture is Mostly Communication • David Whitney, Ian Cooper & Hannes Lowette • GOTO 2025

Three experienced software engineers—Ian Cooper, David Whitney, and Hannes Lowette—deconstruct the evolution of software architecture from a top-down, "ivory tower" practice to a modern, collaborative discipline. They explore the dynamics between emergent and intentional design, the importance of sustainable development over "slash-and-burn" cycles, and how architectural strategies must adapt to organizational scale. The conversation emphasizes that the architect's primary role has shifted to coaching, fostering a shared language, and managing trade-offs, concluding that all significant architectural challenges are ultimately people problems rooted in communication, empathy, and culture.

The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1

The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1

In the first episode of "Monitoring the Situation", a16z's Erik Torenberg, Katherine Boyle, and guest Eddie Lazzarin discuss the firm's coherent vision, linking American Dynamism, gaming, and crypto through the lens of Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto. They explore the philosophical alignment between crypto and American values, the impact of AI on parenting and healthcare, new education models, and how fragmented internet subcultures are shaping mainstream discourse.

Designing Claude Code

Designing Claude Code

Anthropic’s Meaghan Choi and Alex Albert explore the design philosophy behind Claude Code, discussing its terminal-first approach, the evolution of developer workflows in the age of LLMs, and how agentic coding empowers both engineers and designers.

Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end

Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end

Richard Sutton, a foundational figure in reinforcement learning, argues that Large Language Models (LLMs) are a flawed paradigm for achieving true intelligence. He posits that LLMs are mimics of human-generated text, lacking genuine goals, world models, and the ability to learn continually from experience. Sutton advocates for a return to the principles of reinforcement learning, where an agent learns from the consequences of its actions in the real world, a method he believes is truly scalable and fundamental to all animal and human intelligence.