QCon AI New York 2025

Session

Agentic Inception - Use Agents to Build Agentic Systems

December 16–17, 2025 · The New York Academy of Medicine

Wednesday Dec 17 / 01:20PM EST · Room 21, 2nd Flr

Speaker

Kevin Hoffman

Product Manager @Akka, 20+ year expert in distributed systems architecture and engineering

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Abstract

Everyone is using AI coding assistants these days. Regardless of how we feel about this, assisted coding isn’t going away anytime soon, so what can we do to embrace and leverage it? In this session, we will provide some background on best practices, discuss some lessons learned the hard way, and highlight techniques that can radically improve the assisted coding experience.

We’ll do all this as we demonstrate using an AI assistant to build a resilient, distributed, production-grade agentic system from scratch.

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Akka is used to develop resilient, low latency, large scale, cloud-to-edge distributed applications.

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