Abstract
Artificial intelligence has infiltrated nearly every aspect of our lives. Assistants are now capable of performing tasks that were once science fiction, and we’ve started integrating them into our daily routines. But do you fully understand the concepts at play? Can you distinguish between a chatbot and an agent? Could you write your own AI tools?
In this talk, we’ll build an agent from scratch using Rust and open-source tools. While the session will involve live-coding, the focus will be on understanding the core concepts and applications of artificial intelligence. It’s an opportunity to explore how emerging technologies are reshaping the way we interact with computing—and how you can contribute to this revolution.
Prerequisites
NOTE FROM JORGE (workshop speaker):
I will use a repo and do live-coding.
Attendees can download the repo, type the code, and run it using either Ollama or a valid OpenAI account with some credit (it will consume far less than 1€).
I will use snippets to make it a little bit smoother, but all the code is in the repo, and they can catch up by copying and pasting or checking out the corresponding commits.
I will be using Ollama with "qwen3-coder:30b".
