The Age of Async Agents — Cognition's Walden Yan & OpenInspect's Cole Murray
AI agentsBackground agentsCloud agentsAgent architectureContext engineeringDeveloper environmentsAI testingMulti-agent systemsMemory managementCode qualitySRE use casesAI infrastructureLLM behaviorOpen source
This episode features Walden Yan of Cognition and Cole Murray of OpenInspect, discussing the rapid evolution and increasing autonomy of background AI agents. They delve into the architectural decisions, such as in-box versus out-of-box agent harnesses, and the significant infrastructure challenges involved in building and deploying these systems. The conversation also covers the complexities of AI agent memory, multi-agent collaboration, maintaining code quality with AI, and the expanding use cases for cloud agents in SRE, product management, and customer support.