Building LLM agents in JS

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

KBall and returning guest Tejas Kumar dive into the topic of building LLM agents using JavaScript. What they are, how they can be useful (including how Tejas used home-built agents to double his podcasting productivity) & how to get started building and running your own agents, even all on your own device with local models.

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Sponsors:

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Featuring:

• Tejas Kumar – Twitter, GitHub
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Bringing the vibe
• Andrew Ng on Agentic workflows
• Ollama
• Mixtral 8x 22b
• Stately Agent
• Vercel AI SDK
• Tejas’s talk on rebuilding React
• Hugging Face
• Jupyter Notebooks
• Datastax
• Langflow

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapters

1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Hellooo party people (00:00:56)

3. Welcoming back Tejas (00:01:40)

4. What makes an agent (00:03:53)

5. When to use agents (00:07:24)

6. Who builds these? (00:09:40)

7. Ollama is... (00:11:14)

8. The agent framework (00:13:59)

9. Sponsor: Socket (00:16:13)

https://socket.dev/?utm_source=changelog&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=changelog-interviews

10. From the ground up (00:19:02)

11. Gotchas (00:24:44)

12. Running locally (00:28:55)

13. Levels of local resources (00:32:40)

14. Shortcomings (00:36:34)

15. Jumping to binaries (00:42:05)

16. Sponsor: Neon (00:43:32)

https://neon.tech/enterprise

17. Where to use this stuff (00:47:05)

18. Decision making (00:51:06)

19. Just (useful) tools (00:52:12)

20. Closing time (00:55:50)

21. Next up on the pod (00:58:01)