Why Do We Need an Agent Framework? • Rod Johnson • YOW! 2025

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Rod Johnson - Building the Future of Agent Frameworks at Embabel

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ABSTRACT
Aren’t LLMs smart enough to solve our problems directly? Aren’t MCP tools all we need to allow them to solve complex problems?

The founder of Springsource Rod Johnson has a new Open Source project: Embabel; an agent framework, initially for the JVM, that is intended not just to play catchup with Python agent frameworks, but to leapfrog them. [...]

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
00:30 Gen Al: Some things work, some things don't
04:31 Why do Gen Al projects fail?
09:48 How do we fix this?
21:05 Demo
44:05 Outro

Read the full abstract here:
https://yowcon.com/brisbane-2025/sessions/3922

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