Yesterday, I gave an AI agent a complex debugging task and walked away. Three hours later, it had completed 11 deployment iterations without asking me a single question. It tested the code. Identified encryption failures. Researched solutions. Modified the implementation. Redeployed. Found new issues. Adapted its approach. Persisted until everything worked. This wasn't a chatbot answering questions. This was an agent doing work. After 18 months of hands-on experimentation with AI agents—building coding agents, research agents, and production SaaS applications, I've learned something profound: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐛𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲. A chatbot waits for your questions and provides answers. An agent takes your goal and autonomously works toward achieving it—iterating through failures, learning from mistakes, and persisting until the job is done. 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 "𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐩" 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞. I𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 (conducted under the COTRUGLI Business School initiative), 𝐈 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧: ✅ How agents evolved from research labs to production systems ✅ What industry leaders (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft) actually mean by "AI agent" ✅ The 5 levels of agent maturity (and why Level 3-4 is sufficient to revolutionize work) ✅ 18 months of practical lessons from building agents across domains ✅ Why November 2024's Model Context Protocol changed everything The infrastructure is here. The tools exist. What remains is learning to orchestrate them. Will you learn to orchestrate agents, or be orchestrated by those who do? Read the complete research: https://lnkd.in/dx2e_RpT #AIAgents #ArtificialIntelligence #Automation #FutureOfWork #Research #COTRUGLI
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Instead of thinking of your AI tools as all-knowing agents, try thinking of them as a system of focused, specialized tools working together. In this post, our brilliant engineer Michelle Thorsell lays out a path to explore how MCP servers and sub-agents transform Anthropic's Claude from a chatbot into a junior developer that can handle the entire development flow — from ticket to tested pull request. https://lnkd.in/gYM7T7Fb #AI #Engineering #DeveloperTools #Innovation
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Artificial Intelligence is transforming software development, from code generation to automated testing. The IT community is rapidly adapting, with new tools making development cycles faster and more efficient. How are you leveraging AI in your projects? #AI #SoftwareDevelopment #TechTrends
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Artificial Intelligence is transforming software development, from code generation to automated testing. The IT community is rapidly adapting, with new tools making development cycles faster and more efficient. How are you leveraging AI in your projects? #AI #SoftwareDevelopment #TechTrends
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The hype around LLMs is starting to feel… incomplete. 🧠 Why? Because the model itself is just the engine. *The real architectural shift is the rise of AI Agents.* We're moving beyond simple prompt-and-response interactions. The future isn't about meticulously crafting the perfect prompt. It's about defining a high-level *goal* and empowering an agent to achieve it autonomously. This requires a new stack: 🚀 *Orchestration:* A framework to break down the goal into a sequence of steps. 🛠️ *Tooling:* Giving the agent access to APIs, databases, or even other AI models to execute those steps. 💾 *Memory:* Providing short-term and long-term context so it can learn and adapt. Instead of asking an AI to "write Python code to get data from API X", you'll tell the agent: "Generate a quarterly sales performance report for the APAC region and email it to the leadership team." The agent figures out the rest. What do you see as the biggest obstacle to mainstream adoption of autonomous agents? Is it reliability, security, or the sheer complexity of the orchestration layer? #AIAgents #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #Automation #FutureOfWork #TechTrends
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The rise of AI-assisted coding and integration for enterprise environments AI may be writing code faster — but enterprises are learning that speed without structure can create new bottlenecks. 🧩 GitLab’s latest research calls it the AI Paradox: dev teams gain efficiency through AI coding tools, yet lose productivity to scattered toolchains, compliance hurdles, and data silos. The enterprise solution? Platform engineering and model-based integration. By uniting your mobile and backend ecosystems through hubs like Planview, companies can create a single source of truth—cutting down on duplicate effort, reducing compliance risks, and enabling AI agents to work safely within enterprise-grade boundaries. It’s no longer about whether AI can code — it’s about whether your organization is architected to scale that intelligence responsibly. #EnterpriseApps #AICompliance #MobileInnovation #IntegrationStrategy #PlatformEngineering #AIMaturity
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We've been lied to! We always hear: "You can't automate everything." We build slick pipelines to automate the plumbing, but we still leave the most critical part—the decision-making—to human intuition. I'm now convinced this idea is on the verge of being completely obsolete. This became crystal clear as I just wrapped up DataCamp's MLOps Fundamentals skill track. It was a fantastic journey through the entire production lifecycle, and it’s what sparked this entire thought process. Here’s the blueprint I learned: 1. The Foundation (MLOps Concepts): Understanding the full end-to-end lifecycle, maturity models, and the core architecture (feature stores, experiment tracking, containers). 2. The Code (Developing for Production): The critical mindset shift from messy research notebooks to clean, modular, and reproducible engineering. 3. The Launch (Deployment & Life Cycling): This is the "real ground." We dived into CI/CD, API deployment strategies, and, crucially, monitoring for the silent killers: data and concept drift. 4. The Brain (Fully Automated MLOps): This is where it got interesting. We built a full CI/CD/CM/CT pipeline—a loop where the system can spot its own decay and automatically trigger retraining. But here’s the "Aha!" moment. Even this "fully automated" system still needs a human to answer the real questions. "Is this drift significant, or just noise? Is this new model really better for the business, or just statistically different?" This is where the old mantra dies. With the insane, exponential rise of LLMs, why are we still using humans for this? We are on the cusp of the next leap. Forget simple automation. The future is "autonomous operation". Instead of a simple trigger, imagine deploying an AI Agent that investigates the drift, reasons about its root cause, simulates the business impact of retraining, and then makes the "go/no-go" decision. #MLOps #AI #Automation #SystemDesign #LLM #AIAgents
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Citizen developers are rewriting the automation playbook 𝗟𝗼𝘄-𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲/𝗡𝗼-𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲 • 𝗔𝗜 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 • 𝗘𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗔𝗜 Traditional AI projects are slow, costly, and code-heavy — but a shift is here. Visual builders let business teams ship intelligent workflows fast. 🔹 Highlights: - 🤖 AutoML-powered model training without deep ML skills - ⚡ Real-time inference at the device level for instant decisions - 🔒 Built-in security and compliance controls - ☁️ Cloud-native scalability + visual business-rule editors Use cases: healthcare diagnostics, fraud detection, personalized retail, predictive maintenance. How would you apply this in your team? Share one use case below. 👇 Read more: https://lnkd.in/ec6v-2W9 Dive in and pilot a no-code proof of value this quarter. #DigitalRobots #WorkSmarter #IntelligentAutomation #AIforBusiness
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