ACM CAIS: Conference on AI and Agentic Systems (opens in new tab)

Last week, I traveled to San Jose to attend the . On Day 0, I gave a short talk at the . And yes, I promise to write a summary of our paper, "" soon! To start with an overall impression of the conference: much of the work presented felt exploratory and anecdotal. Since the compound AI space is still so new, many work seemed to share on-the-ground best practices that worked for them rather than principled results. Some talks really leaned into the "agent, act like a senior engineer and don't m...