Designing Agents (The Floor Is the Frontier) — Ben Hylak, Raindrop
No good standards exist for agent development; real-world continual learning is largely absent.
“there aren't really good standards for these things, right? Like there there's not some one-size-fits-all uh solution”
Ben Hylak from Raindrop argues that despite heavy online discourse around agent evals and frameworks, there are no established standards for building reliable agents in production, and continual learning is rarely deployed in real-world systems. The talk pivots to a practitioner dialogue format to surface what is actually working for builders in the field. Useful ground-level signal on the gap between AI hype and production realities, but lacks concrete findings or announcements.