LangChain Founder: Background Agents Are the Future of Work Scaling
BraceSproul · x · 2026-08-14
Hwchase17, founder of LangChain, believes that agents running in the background will be the future, allowing work to scale beyond people prompting them directly. He notes that crons are one way to achieve this and are now available with first-class support in Managed DeepAgents.
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