ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Adoption of AI has been dramatic, but the boost that the release of the OpenClaw agent technology delivered in November of last year was even more so. The mad rush to put agents to work has had wide ranging impacts, including market impacts on the supply of the venerable Mac Mini computer. That intensity and the need to manage the shockwaves agents are creating are what analysts Jean Atelsek and Marissa Incera joined host Eric Hanselman to discuss. There are now a proliferation of agents and they are creating demands on enterprise infrastructure that are outstripping those of initial AI adoption. The quandary enterprises are wrestling with is how to harness agentic power without limiting the innovations they can provide and still bounding the activities they can undertake.
Effective agent use requires more than just an agent framework running on a single system. There has to be mediated access to data, management of context and memory in the agentic flow and security around agent action. The headlines are already filled with stories of the havoc that can be wreaked by misguided attempts. It requires a lot of diligence to get this right. More S&P Global Content:
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Host/Author: Eric Hanselman
Guests: Jean Atelsek and Melissa Incera
Producer/Editor: Dylan Scheible
Published With Assistance From: Feranmi Adeoshun and Sophie Carr
