--- title: Agent Night hype is bigger than any actual agent shipped description: An AI agent-focused event called Agent Night drew hundreds of founders and builders to The Regency Ballroom, featuring speakers like swyx, davidcrawshaw, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/agent-night-hype-is-bigger-than-any-actual-agent-shipped-jqgbgk0bt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Agent Night hype is bigger than any actual agent shipped | daily.dev og:description: An AI agent-focused event called Agent Night drew hundreds of founders and builders to The Regency Ballroom, featuring speakers like swyx, davidcrawshaw, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/agent-night-hype-is-bigger-than-any-actual-agent-shipped-jqgbgk0bt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JqGbGk0Bt.png og:image:alt: Agent Night hype is bigger than any actual agent shipped og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Agent Night hype is bigger than any actual agent shipped **[Trends](https://daily.dev/sources/trends)** · 1 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An AI agent-focused event called Agent Night drew hundreds of founders and builders to The Regency Ballroom, featuring speakers like swyx, davidcrawshaw, and bdougieYO. Post-event discussion split into two camps: philosophical takes on how to think about agents versus tactical accounts of actually building them. Peter Yang shared takeaways from Linear's Nan Yu and Dallon Ash on building a production agent used by real users, while Harrison Chase of LangChain discussed a separate agent-building conversation with Connor Heggie. ## Content So there's apparently a whole scene now built around AI agents, complete with its own live event. "Agent Night" happened at The Regency Ballroom, and based on the recap tweets, it pulled a real lineup: swyx, JayaGup10, Altimor, davidcrawshaw, bdougieYO, and others, with hundreds of founders and builders showing up. If you weren't there, you're apparently supposed to feel like you missed something. What's actually interesting isn't the event itself, it's what people are choosing to talk about afterward. The conversation has split into two camps: the philosophical "here's how we think about agents" crowd and the tactical "here's literally how we built ours" crowd. On the tactical side, Peter Yang shared five takeaways from a conversation with Nan Yu and Dallon Ash of Linear on building a production agent end to end. The framing matters here: not a demo, not a prototype, a production agent that real users depend on. That's a different bar than most of what gets shown off at these events, and it's probably why people are paying attention to it instead of the usual agent-vibes content. 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