LangChain's proactive agent engineering: agents will assign tasks to you
LangChain · x · 2026-11-11
Sydney Runkle of LangChain shared her "proactive agent engineering" talk slides from AI Engineer:
- Thesis: a shift is coming from "you give an agent tasks" to "an agent gives you tasks"
- Prerequisite: this requires a step change in memory and UX
- Blog version coming soon
A directional methodology resource for developers building proactive agents.
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