Agent Wars: The Hype, Hope, and Hidden Risks with Nate B. Jones

About this episode

Nate B. Jones discusses the challenges and strategies related to AI agent adoption and architecture.

In this episode of AI Explained, we are joined by Nate B. Jones, AI strategist. He explores high-level advice for organizations, technical ideas such as prompting and application architecture, and the current state of agent adoption. Key topics include challenges in building production-ready agents, architectural decisions, and ensuring ROI from these agents.

People in this episode

Host: Fiddler AI

Guest: Nate B. Jones

Topics covered

• AI strategy
• agent adoption
• production-ready agents
• architectural decisions
• ROI

Keywords

• AI
• agents
• architecture
• ROI
• production-ready
• strategist
• prompting

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Fiddler AI

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