AI agents becoming workplace norm
AI agents are shifting from demos to day‑to‑day automation — Kniberg demos agents that monitor GitHub, post summaries, schedule reviews, and even make calls, framing them as “interns with superpowers,” while product teams are folding agentic workflows into commerce and developer tooling. ((youtube.com), eweek.com)
Henrik Kniberg delivered the "AI Agents in Practice" keynote at GOTO Copenhagen on October 1, 2025, and published slides showing a live-build demo and practical tips for agent design. (gotocph.com) One demo Kniberg discussed was an Invoice Router that inspects incoming documents, classifies and routes them to teams while flagging exceptions for humans, an example he’s used to illustrate agentic task decomposition. (productatheart.com) Kniberg is listed as co‑founder and Chief Scientist at Abundly.ai, where his team focuses on an autonomous-agent platform and publishes applied playbooks and conference materials. (abundly.ai) The open-source "Superpowers" agent framework has emerged as a de facto coding‑agent workflow, with the obra/superpowers repo showing sustained activity and community adoption on GitHub. (github.com) GitHub’s "Mission Control" guidance for orchestrating multiple Copilot agents outlines review loops, drift detection, and centralized agent management as patterns for production developer tooling. (github.blog) Platform vendors are shipping commerce primitives for agents: Shopify’s developer docs expose agent APIs for searching catalogs and managing universal carts across merchants, while a recent market map lists 36 companies in agentic‑commerce tooling. (shopify.dev) Low‑latency voice models are removing a technical barrier to agents initiating calls and real‑time audio interactions, illustrated by Google’s March 26, 2026 release of Gemini 3.1 Flash Live with a Gemini Live API for developers and enterprise access. (blog.google)
