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Humans of AI Stories · EP 16

Eric Zhu

The Hard Truth About AI Agents: What We Learned Building in Open Source

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A deep dive into the frameworks and architectures powering modern AI products — from early brittle agent systems to workflow orchestration, open source lessons, and what's changing as models and tooling improve.

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What you'll hear
  • →The OpenClaw saga: an open-source agentic project, an AI social network, and a solo founder's path to OpenAI.
  • →What new research from Anthropic and OpenAI reveals about handing the wheel to agents.
  • →Are CS majors disappearing, when is AGI, and the return of Humans of AI for Season 2.
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