Advanced AI in Action: The Cutting Edge of Autonomous Agents

AI has moved beyond chatbots and code completion. Today’s agents can work in parallel, run unattended, maintain context across sessions, and collaborate with people through shared chat channels. In this advanced, demo-driven talk, Josh Frank shows what cutting-edge AI looks like in practice. We’ll move quickly from a single coding agent to coordinated teams of agents, scheduled autonomous work, and agents you can direct from your phone—with their actions and results streaming back into the conversation. Expect an opinionated look at the frontier of practical AI: real tools, live demonstrations, and the technical foundations that make increasingly autonomous work possible. Who it’s for: Developers, technical founders, and experienced AI users ready to go beyond prompting. This is an advanced session, not an introduction to ChatGPT. About the speaker: Josh Frank is the founder of Tesseract Mobile in St. Louis. He builds software and open-source tooling that connects AI agents to development environments, chat systems, and robots.