Sowjanya Pandruju, Cloud Application Architect with Amazon Web Services, Vice Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Madison Section, and Chair of the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Madison Section (Region 4), speaks with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about managing agent state. Sowjanya discusses what agents are and are not, what agent state is, the role an LLM actually plays, why agents need state, the different types of state, where to store agent state, how multi-agents change things, and the solutions to the various challenges created by managing agent state.
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Show Notes
- SE Radio 733: Max Corbridge on Securing AI Agents
- SE Radio 730: Birgitta Boeckeler on Harness Engineering for AI Agents
- SE Radio 728: Clare Liguori on the AWS Strands SDK for AI Agents
Other References
- Securing Agentic AI: A Comprehensive Threat Model and Mitigation Framework for Generative AI Agents
- Framework for Enhancing Fairness and Transparency in Multi-Agent Creative AI Systems: A Position Paper
- Sowjanya’s LinkedIn
- LangGraph, particularly for stateful agent workflows, checkpointing, and persistence
- Semantic Kernel, for agent orchestration and integrating agents with tools and application state
- Temporal, for durable workflow execution, retries, and recovery
- Model Context Protocol (MCP), for connecting AI applications with tools and external systems
- Vector Databases Aren’t Enough: Why AI Needs Multi-Modal Memory Architectures | HackerNoon
- COSTAR: Cloud-Observed Safety and Trust-Aware Agentic Reasoning for Enterprise Workflows
