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.
Related event: LangChain Founder Says Background Autonomous Agents Are the Future(2 posts)→
More from coding & agent
- Tencent Releases UI-Mate-27B, a Desktop GUI Agent Model — tencent · 2026-08-24
- Comparing AI Subscriptions: DeepSeek API vs. Claude Pro vs. Local LLMs — Unlikely_Bluejay5392 · 2026-08-24
- Claude Code introduces 'Remote Control' feature to boost coding efficiency — rohanpaul_ai · 2026-08-24
- rauchg lays out fx extension philosophy: MCP, Skills, Plugins and Unix composition — AccBalanced · 2026-08-24
- Netflix details its production LLM judge: hundreds of thousands of recommendations scored weekly — omarsar0 · 2026-08-24
- smolvm passes Simon Willison's Fable 5 agent test as a secure sandbox — yawnxyz · 2026-08-24