When I look at the progress and advancements in industrial automation as a blueprint, and I have worked in this field for my entire professional career, and from my time building a few toy 'agentic AI' systems as a hobby and for education, the jobs aren't going anywhere.
They're going to change, where humans sit in the loop and how they program will change, probably a good blend of procedural control and object-oriented processes, where the agents are considered objects and process flow is defined in the procedural methods, but don't freak out there's still a ton to do.
There are many design principles we can leverage to enhance human participation and fulfillment instead of just replacing them. Lights out manufacturing hasn't taken off, why would we think a lights out society would work any better?
I use a combination of the crewAI python library, chromaDB as a vector database, and I run an embedding and llama model out of an Ollama docker container. This is all running and hosted locally on my personal PC and running off a 12GB RTX3060. I had to customize some of the tooling that comes with crewAI to make the RAG retrieval tool they provide work with my local chromaDB and Ollama models.
They have a nice class setup that lets you build fully custom tooling, really fun playing with the Selenium webdriver library and give your agents tooling to interact and observe web elements.
Huggingface recently released their smolagents framework as well, I might start looking into that.
They're going to change, where humans sit in the loop and how they program will change, probably a good blend of procedural control and object-oriented processes, where the agents are considered objects and process flow is defined in the procedural methods, but don't freak out there's still a ton to do.
There are many design principles we can leverage to enhance human participation and fulfillment instead of just replacing them. Lights out manufacturing hasn't taken off, why would we think a lights out society would work any better?
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