AI Agents in Practice • Henrik Kniberg • GOTO 2025

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph https://gotocph.com Henrik Kniberg - AI Whisperer & Chief Scientist & Co-Founder of Abundly.AI @henrikkniberg RESOURCES https://twitter.com/henrikkniberg https://www.linkedin.com/in/hkniberg https://blog.crisp.se/author/henrikkniberg ABSTRACT What is an AI agent? How do you make agents that actually work and do useful stuff? And what are some things to keep in mind when doing so? –Tips, techniques, pitfalls? In this talk Henrik shares experiences from real-life agent development. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 00:21 The future of work 01:02 What is an AI agent? 02:32 Demo: How to build an AI agent 11:40 Code vs Agent vs Human 13:12 Architecture of an agent platform 14:47 Where to use agents 19:13 Content is king 22:30 Demo: Data documents & apps 24:13 Content is king continued 27:11 Agent design tips 33:20 Cool thing: Agents making their own tools 36:45 Wrap-up 39:35 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3766 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Alex Castrounis • AI for People and Business • https://amzn.to/3NYKKTo Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZ Holden Karau, Trevor Grant, Boris Lublinsky, Richard Liu & Ilan Filonenko • Kubeflow for Machine Learning • https://amzn.to/3JVngcx Kelleher & Tierney • Data Science (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) • https://amzn.to/3AQmIRg Lakshmanan, Robinson & Munn • Machine Learning Design Patterns • https://amzn.to/2ZD7t0x Lakshmanan, Görner & Gillard • Practical Machine Learning for Computer Vision • https://amzn.to/3m9HNjP https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #AIAgents #AIinPractice #AIAgentsInPractice #AI #HenrikKniberg #GOTO CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1