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Clare Liguori discusses the evolution of Strands Agents and lessons learned in building agents at scale.

In this episode, Thomas Betts talks with Clare Liguori, the technical lead on the open source Strands Agents SDK. The conversation covers how Strands Agents has grown from a Python SDK to a full agent harness running in production. Clare shares some lessons learned from building agents at scale, shifting to a model-driven architecture, and what comes next as the LLMs that underpin agents continue to improve. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4pluNYt Newsletter: Subscribe to the Software Architects' Newsletter, a monthly roundup of the patterns and technologies senior practitioners are working through, with the news and lessons from people doing the work: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter InfoQ Online Certification Programs: 5-week online cohorts for senior engineers and architects, built around QCon talks. Programs now cover software architecture, AI engineering, and organizational architecture. Each week you join a four-hour live session with a confidential peer group of practitioners from other companies, apply frameworks from QCon talks to the decisions you're making at work, and earn an InfoQ certification. You leave with new approaches…

People in this episode

Host: Thomas Betts

Guest: Clare Liguori

Topics covered

• Strands Agents
• open source
• agent harness
• model-driven architecture
• LLMs
• software engineering

Keywords

• Strands Agents
• SDK
• Python
• model-driven architecture
• LLMs
• software architecture
• agent development

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Organizations: Strands Agents, InfoQ, Software Architects' Newsletter, QCon

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