Building Agents at Scale: Lessons from the Front Lines With Gary Stafford

About this episode

Gary Stafford discusses the choice between AI/ML and agentic approaches in enterprises, along with practical guidance on multi-agent systems.

In this episode of AI Explained, we are joined by Gary Stafford, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS Strands Agents. He delves into how enterprises choose between AI/ML and agentic approaches, patterns for multi-agent systems, and the role of MCP. Gary also shares real-world use cases and practical guidance on safety, scaling, and delivering enterprise-ready agent systems.

People in this episode

Host: Fiddler AI

Guest: Gary Stafford

Topics covered

• AI
• machine learning
• multi-agent systems
• enterprise solutions
• scaling
• safety

Keywords

• AI
• machine learning
• agent systems
• enterprise
• scaling
• safety
• real-world use cases

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AWS Strands Agents, Fiddler AI

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