Join Du’An Lightfoot, AI Developer at AWS, as he dives deep into building AI agents with the strands framework. In this technical walkthrough, Du’An demonstrates how to create custom AI coding assistants and multi-agent systems in just a few lines of code. Learn how agentic AI frameworks have evolved from basic function calling to sophisticated systems that can rival tools like Cursor and Cloud Code. Du’An shares practical examples, including building content pipelines, preprocessing systems, and even generating a book outline from his own YouTube content. Whether you’re looking to automate workflows or build your own AI-powered tools, this session covers the frameworks and techniques you need to get started with AI agents.
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Timestamps
0:00 – Introduction & Welcome
6:43 – AI Tools Discussion & Current Usage
9:33 – Technical Background & Getting Started with Agents
- 15:00 – Introduction to Strands Framework
- 25:00 – Building Custom AI Agents Demo
- 40:00 – Multi-Agent Systems & Workflows
- 55:00 – Content Pipeline & Preprocessing Examples
- 1:05:00 – Book Generation Demo
- 1:10:00 – Q&A & Wrap Up
How to find Du’An:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/duanlightfoot/
Links from the show:
https://s12d.com/vbrownbag-2025
https://github.com/strands-agents/samples
https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/getting-started/intro
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents
https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-bedrock-agentcore-samples
https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk
https://modelcontextprotocol.io/llms-full.txt