In this inaugural address at "Interrupt," Harrison Chase, the creator of LangChain, discusses the evolution and future of AI agents. He reflects on LangChain's origins as an open-source project born from community needs and its growth alongside the explosion of interest in AI, particularly after ChatGPT. Chase identifies the challenges in moving AI prototypes to reliable production systems, which led to the creation of the LangChain company, whose mission is to make intelligent agents ubiquitous by providing the necessary tooling. He emphasizes the importance of prompting, engineering, product sense, and machine learning in building agents, defining a new role: the "agent engineer." Chase shares his beliefs about the future of AI agents, including the use of multiple models, the importance of context, and the collaborative nature of agent building, highlighting LangChain's tools like LangGraph and LangSmith. He also introduces new metrics for AI observability, LangGraph pre-builts and Studio V2 to empower more people to become agent builders, and the general availability of LangGraph platform to tackle deployment challenges.
