OpenAI + @Temporalio : Building Durable, Production Ready Agents - Cornelia Davis, Temporal
Summary
Only 25% of attendees use OpenAI's Agent SDK, but Temporal's workflow engine can supercharge these intelligent agents with durable, production-ready features for founders and builders.
Key Takeaways
- Temporal's workflow engine can orchestrate and manage the lifecycle of OpenAI agents, enabling robust, production-ready AI applications.
- Microservices and distributed systems expertise is crucial for building scalable, resilient AI applications that can handle complex business logic.
- The OpenAI Agents SDK provides a framework for building intelligent agents that can make autonomous decisions, beyond simple language models.
- Only 25% of attendees are currently using an agent framework like OpenAI's, leaving room for innovation in the AI tooling space.
- Orchestrating complex workflows and ensuring durability for AI agents is a key challenge that Temporal aims to solve for founders and builders.
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Transcript Excerpt
I'll introduce myself in in just a moment, but I'd like to get to know a little bit about you. So, you know, you can see that there's there's two brands up on the screen here. There's OpenAI agents SDK in particular, and there's Temporal. I work for Temporal. I'll tell you more about myself in just a second. Um, I'm curious, how many folks are using the OpenAI agents SDK today? Okay, about a quarter of you. um any other um a agentic frameworks? Okay, about the same set of you. So it's it looks like there's a hand quite a number of you who are not using an agent framework just yet. So, I'll teach you a little bit about that. Okay, next question. How many folks are doing anything with temporal? Not very many. Awesome. I'm gonna get to teach you some stuff. Um, okay, cool. So, uh, we're going…
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