The Future of AI Agents with Andrew Ng | Interrupt 26

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Andrew Ng sat down with Harrison Chase for a wide-ranging fireside chat at Interrupt, the agent conference by LangChain. Watch the full session and get insights on: - How fast coding agents have evolved and how the way small teams ship is being reshaped - The "product management bottleneck" and why accelerating software development just moves the constraint somewhere else - How enterprises are getting incremental AI wins but missing the bigger transformation - The data architecture rework most companies haven't started yet ...and so much more The Future of AI Agents with Andrew NG | Interrupt 26 0:00 Welcome and intro 0:39 What surprised Andrew most in the past year 1:06 The rise of coding agents 2:01 The product management bottleneck 4:50 What background do these new generalist engineers come from 6:02 How to get into AI software engineering 7:50 Building blocks, LEGO bricks, and combinatorial development 8:34 Context Hub and keeping agents up to date 9:50 DeepLearning.AI, LangChain, and short courses 10:05 How education is changing with AI 11:46 LearnDream.ai and interactive learning 13:29 Enterprise AI adoption: what's working and what isn't 14:46 The loan underwriting example 16:44 Cost savings vs. driving growth 17:11 Good examples of AI driving business growth 18:27 Measuring ROI 19:07 Swinging for the fences vs. incremental gains 22:00 Forward deployed engineers: hype vs. reality 23:01 Vendor lock-in and preserving optionality 25:04 LangSmith as a vendor-neutral layer 25:27 Open source and open-weight models 26:38 Data strategy before building agents 28:17 Unstructured data and the coming rearchitecture 31:22 Closing thoughts Extra resources: • Everything we shipped at Interrupt: https://www.langchain.com/blog/interrupt-2026-overview • Meet LangSmith Engine: https://www.langchain.com/blog/introducing-langsmith-engine • About LangChain: https://www.langchain.com/