About Me
Chief Hallucination Officer DreamLab AI Consulting Ltd,
residential training in Eskdale.
## Associate Director R&D dreamlab . ## Support learning for Saïd Business School ### Full portfolio of online AI modules.  ## Founding member Agentic Alliance . 25+ years building research, products and teams at the intersection of technology, data and creativity. I managed the UK's first Cave Automatic Virtual Environment for decades, working on frontier research, IMAX documentaries, autonomous marine systems and multi-agent AI orchestration. PhD in telepresence and light field implementation. Over £8M in research grants managed. **Career highlights:** Postdoctoral research and commercial work at MediaCityUK CTO roles in display engineering and Unreal Engine plugin development (tools used by AAA game studios and Hollywood productions) AI lead for Future Fleet (machine vision for marine systems, patent pending) Research Director at Pathway XR (virtual production and immersive systems) 17 years as Technical Director of the Octave mixed reality laboratory — working/pages/Introduction to me.md
Agentics Foundation
- Founded by Reuven Cohen, the Agentics Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to making AI innovation and education open to everyone by supporting the development & deployment of open source agentic AI systems.
- Here’s the slide deck
- Agentics dot Org is free, there’s no pressure to join.
- It’s a not-for-profit organisation in Canadian Law.
- Over twenty global ambassadors, Ian and I handle Whitehaven area.
Community Things
LinkedIn (53,000 members)
- Cohen has 62000 followers.
- Search for “♾️” agentics < with the quotes around the infinity
Videos
- Hundreds of hours of free, actionable learning content
- Live multiple times a week on youtube, linkedin, and the agentics website, usually in the evening
WhatsApp Groups (1200 members and very active)
Discord Group with 2600 members
Why Agentics
Terminology
Definition
The term agent is contested, and has been for years. The simplest definition is a piece of software that does something on your behalf, using AI.
What are Agents
I have given up following the debate because in a way it doesn’t matter. As a good heuristic Large Language Models are training on huge corpora to predict the next most likely token Chatbots - LLMs that are tuned by Reinforcement Learning for turn based chat Agents Tool use Memory Agency (decision action trees) Minimal oversight Outcome driven Agentic Systems Persistence across sessions Learning (allowed by persistence) Complex tool use Complex tasks Able to create and use tooling Multi-Agent Orchestration Complex organisations of Agentic Systems Long runs times Open ended discovery and knowledge synthesis Systems level problems Expensive, difficult to make safe / secure — working/pages/Agents.md
What is it you want to do?
- https://developers.openai.com/codex/app
- https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13345190-get-started-with-claude-cowork
Vibe Coding vs Agentic Engineering
- Agentic Engineering and Vibe Coding are different ways to interact, create and develop with AI.
Vibe Coding
- Flow
- Fluid and Intuitive
- Little Process
- Human is the feedback loop
- Ideation and Discovery
Agentic Engineering
- Structured
- Process Driven
- Deep Planning / Test Driven
- Machine is the feedback loop
- Iteration and refinement
Lots of examples < unfold
My Main Project (VisionFlow.info)
- Capability Overhang (AI daily brief)
- Very very few people are using the full capacity / capability of AI. The unlock is full agentics, but it’s complicated.
- https://www.youtube.com/@AIDailyBrief
Example from Yesterday (Vitrine)
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How Do I Start???
Homework, it’s complex and will take time
- Start soaking up the terminology
- GitHub
- Docker and Containers
- VSCode
- Harnesses
- A subscription to an Agentic Provider
- Consumer - GLM5.2 from Z AI.
- Pro - OpenAI Codex plan
- Anthropic Claude Code
- Here’s the promised self guided course material