#112 AI Agents Get More 9's with Rod Johnson

About this episode

Rod Johnson discusses his new AI Agent framework, Embabel, and how it can help enterprises build more reliable agents.

Rod Johnson , creator of the Spring Framework, has created a JVM-based AI Agent framework called Embabel . We dive in and learn how enterprises can build more reliable Agents using deterministic planning and domain-driven orchestration. Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF⁠⁠

People in this episode

Hosts: Bruce Eckel, James Ward

Guest: Rod Johnson

Topics covered

• AI Agents
• deterministic planning
• domain-driven orchestration
• enterprise solutions
• JVM-based frameworks

Keywords

• AI Agents
• Embabel
• Spring Framework
• deterministic planning
• domain-driven orchestration
• enterprise AI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Spring Framework

Products: Embabel

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