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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
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Sebastian Raschka • Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) • amzn.to/3WpVP3g
Banu Parasurama • Mastering Spring AI • amzn.to/4oLWiZK
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yowcon.com
Rod Johnson - Building the Future of Agent Frameworks at Embabel
RESOURCES
twitter.com/springrod
github.com/johnsonr
linkedin.com/in/johnsonroda
the-composition.com/@springrod
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:
yowcon.com/brisbane-2025/sessions/3922
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Reynolds T. Smith • Hands-on Spring AI Projects • amzn.to/47eFR23
Sebastian Raschka • Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) • amzn.to/3WpVP3g
Banu Parasurama • Mastering Spring AI • amzn.to/4oLWiZK
https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com
twitter.com/GOTOcon
linkedin.com/company/goto-
instagram.com/goto_con
facebook.com/GOTOConferences
#AgentFramework #AgenticAI #SpringAI #GenAI #JVM #JavaAI #Embabel #PromptEngineering #EnterpriseAI #LLM #TodayInTech #RodJohnson #YOWcon
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