While loops with tool calls

In this episode of the Practical AI podcast, Daniel Whitenack and Chris Benson interview Jared Zoneraich, co-founder and CEO at Prompt Layer, about the evolution of prompting and AI systems. They discuss the shift from prompt engineering to context engineering, the increasing availability of tools, and the move towards more autonomous and agentic systems using tool calls in a while loop. The conversation covers the challenges of testing flexible agents, the importance of domain experts in AI development, and the need for a crawl, walk, run approach to AI implementation. Jared shares his excitement about coding agents, non-technical uses of AI, and the democratization of AI engineering.