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Summary: Wordware Presentation by CEO Phillip

  • Introduction
    • Phillip, CEO of Wordware
    • Experience: 7 years in LLMs (Language Learning Models)
    • Current LLM uses: chatbots, summarization, content generation, knowledge retrieval
  • Definition of Agents
    • Non-agentic workflows: No planning, tool use, reflection, or collaboration
    • Agentic workflows: Involves planning, reflection, tool use, multi-agent collaboration
  • Building Agents
    • Stages of agent development:
      • Handcrafted agents with specific coded steps
      • Specialized agents for particular tasks
      • General agents like autog GPT or react (not yet in production)
    • Challenges:
      • Slow iteration speed
      • Non-coders cannot participate in iteration cycles
  • Wordware’s Approach
    • Prompts should not be in the codebase
    • Created an IDE focused on AI agent building
    • New coding language based on English
  • Demonstration
    • Showcased IDE capabilities with examples:
      • Hello World
      • Research and storytelling
      • Personal website creation
      • Stock price checking
      • React agent logic
    • Emphasized the importance of iteration and observability
    • Deployed applications accessible via API or internally
    • Community sharing of LLM “buck” (building blocks)
  • Use Cases
    • Enterprise customers for knowledge retrieval
    • Fun applications like creating a Lego figure from a photo
  • Wordware’s Tools and Models
    • Offers various tools and models for different tasks
    • Recommends Sonar Large by Perplexity for research
    • Suggests using Vision models for PDF transcription
  • Editor and Evaluation
    • WYSIWYG editor for immediate feedback
    • Believes in iteration and traceability over ground truth for quality
  • Promotion
    • Exclusive promo code for 50% discount on Wordware
    • Free credits for users, supported by investors like Y Combinator
  • Closing
    • Wordware aims to be the main IDE for LLM development and application