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The Best Developer Experience For Building A.I. Agents (ft Ahmad Awais)

Tool Use - AI Conversations

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Unlock the secrets to world-class developer experience for AI agents! Discover how to build powerful, reliable AI agents with Ahmad Awais, founder and CEO of Lang Base, a serverless platform revolutionizing AI development. We dive deep into overcoming complex tooling and steep learning curves, exploring AI primitives, and the groundbreaking AI coding agent, Chai, which builds other AI agents for you. Learn about agentic RAG, memory agents, scaling agent workflows, and the future of AI agent creation. Ahmad shares his journey from open-source contributor to AI innovator, and how Lang Base and Chai are tearing down barriers to innovation in the AI space. If you're building, designing, or dreaming of the next generation of AI, this episode is essential viewing.

Lang Base: https://langbase.com/ Chai: https://chai.new/

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00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:46 - Ahmad Awais' Journey into AI & Open Source 00:09:03 - Deep Dive: Lang Base Chai - AI Agent Builder Explained 00:33:45 - Most Compelling AI Agents Built with Lang Base & Chai 00:36:32 - Principles for Great Developer Experience (DevEx) in AI Tooling 00:45:49 - Tools & Advice for Advanced AI Agent Development (ft. MCP) 00:51:04 - Bonus: Ahmad's Open Source Code on Mars with NASA

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