I got a chance to give a lightning talk today at an internal company summit around agent things. A few things stand out from both my session and other sessions today:
- Holy heck is it cool to be working at NVIDIA at this moment in time. Lots of people are working on lots of very cool agent things. It’s really inspiring to see what other people are working on, and get ideas and potential collab for the things I’m working on. 🤩
- Agents are super cool but there are also a lot of hard engineering problems around all this stuff. It really is a generational shift in software engineering, and figuring out new ways to apply familiar patterns in this new paradigm. And availability of tokens does not solve the hard problems. That takes work.
- Even in this room of very smart people working on very cool things, the thing I am working on remains a hard problem. Nobody else has a magic fix that makes my hard problem easy. That is validating in that I think my work is worthwhile and justified - I’m not wasting effort on something someone else has an easy fix for. But also a little sad because an easy fix would let me say “ok, THIS is solved, let me go work on the other 999,999 problems I find interesting.” 🤣
Awesome day. Very curious what else I’ll learn about during day two tomorrow 😁