Agents are Robots Too: What Self-Driving Taught Me About Building Agents — Jesse Hu, Abundant

Drawing surprising parallels between AI agents and robotics, this talk argues that the agent development community is repeating a key mistake from the self-driving industry: underestimating the difficulty of action and over-focusing on reasoning. It covers essential robotics concepts like DAgger, MDPs, simulation, and the critical importance of a robust offline infrastructure, explaining why perfect reasoning doesn't guarantee successful execution in the real world.