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Overall Theme: The Dawn of Agentic AI in Software Development
The first episode of “Raising an Agent” introduces listeners to Thorsten Ball and Quinn Slack’s pioneering journey as they build an AI-powered coding assistant from the ground up. In this inaugural session, they share their excitement over the agent’s surprisingly autonomous problem-solving, reveal the foundational “inversion of control” mindset that lets the model orchestrate tasks with minimal human prompting, and highlight the emergent behaviors—like self-debugging and tool-use—that transformed their rough prototype into a capable collaborator. Throughout, they offer a candid look at both the triumphs and the early challenges of wiring together language models, developer tooling, and rich feedback loops, setting the stage for a deeper exploration of what it means to treat an LLM not just as a generator of text but as an autonomous software engineer.
1. Podcast & Project Overview:
- Podcast Name: "Raising an Agent."