AI agents can work autonomously by delegating tasks to different agents, models and tools. Various protocols are evolving to standardize the communication between agents. This post describes some p...
Why Agents and Agentic Systems can fail
At the ChatBot Summit in Berlin I gave a talk ‘How to understand why Agents fail’. Below is a transcript and the slides. As you all know there is a lot of innovation and buzz around agents and age...
Fixing Errors in the AI-based IDE Project Bob
This week at TechXchange 2025 IBM introduced project Bob, a tool for AI-based development of enterprise software. Below are two of my favorite features. Project Bob helps shipping quality software...
Introducing Project Bob for AI based Software Development
This week at TechXchange 2025 IBM introduced project Bob, a tool for AI-based development of software for enterprises. Below are some screenshots from the demo in the keynote. The landing page des...
Introduction to Docling
Docling is an open-source framework to extract information from PDFs, DOCX, tables, images and other document types into structured data for scenarios like Generative AI and agentic applications. T...
Leveraging Docling in Langflow
Docling and Langflow are two popular open-source frameworks to extract information from documents and to build agentic applications. This post describes how to leverage Docling within Langflow. La...
Benefits of IBM watsonx Orchestrate
My colleagues Volker Kuhm and Leonard Brucksch and I have written an article outlining the benefits of IBM watsonx Orchestrate titled ‘AI Agents for Business’. Below is our short version. For more...
Getting User Input in watsonx Orchestrate Agents
Watsonx Orchestrate is IBM’s platform to build and run agentic systems. Autonomous agents can automate tasks but often humans need to be in the loop. This post explains how Orchestrate agents can a...
Top five Reasons why to use watsonx Orchestrate Agents
Watsonx Orchestrate is IBM’s platform to build and run agentic systems, from structured flows to autonomous systems. You can start simple via the Orchestrate user interfaces, but as a developer you...
Creating Ground Truth Datasets for Agent Evaluations
Agentic applications can fail for multiple reasons. For developers it’s important to understand why they fail to improve the quality. To run evaluations, ground truth information is required which ...