Cranking out Good Code 
AIMUG, the AI Middleware Users Group (it started as Austin LangChain), is where I go to see what people are actually building with AI, and to hear what didn’t work. We were talking about agents here long before they went mainstream.
Since May 2025 I’ve given six talks there. AIMUG collected them on my speaker page. Here’s the short version of each, newest first.
| Talk | AIMUG | Recording |
|---|---|---|
| Grokbot and Jev, a decision model | Oct 2026 | Watch |
| LangGraph for fraud detection | Jun 2026 | Premieres Nov 5 |
| OpenClaw: a swarm of local agents | Mar 2026 | Premieres Nov 19 |
| Claude Code’s Chrome extension | Jan 2026 | Premieres Dec 10 |
| Cursor tips and tricks | Jul 2025 | Watch |
| Controlling Odoo ERP over MCP | May 2025 | Premieres Jan 7 |
Grokbot and Jev, a decision model
October 5, 2026 · 16 min · Talk page · Watch on YouTube
Two things I’ve been experimenting with:
- Personal agents: Grokbot, Hermes, and OpenClaw, and the trade-offs around hosting, model choice, and setup. I use them for calendar and email, my Obsidian vault, and fitness coaching.
- Jev: a model that returns structured decisions and probabilities instead of text. I looked at where it could handle routing and relevance checks inside a larger agent workflow.
Takeaway: use code for exact checks, a decision model for bounded judgments, and an LLM for writing and open-ended reasoning. LangGraph lets you combine all three in one workflow.
One workflow, specialized nodes: code, Jev, an LLM, and tools.
More: slides and demo material · my write-up on Jev and personal agents · recording on LinkedIn
LangGraph for Fraud Detection: Guardrails, Evals and Langfuse
June 2026 · 21 min · Video premieres Thu, Nov 5
Thumbnail via AIMUG.
How to build a fraud-investigation agent you can trust: LangGraph for the workflow, guardrails around what the agent is allowed to do, evaluations to measure it, and tracing with Langfuse so every tool call is visible.
Takeaway: the agent gathers and explains the evidence; a human and the system of record make the call.
More: my write-up on building an AI fraud investigation agent
OpenClaw: Running a Swarm of Local AI Agents
March 2026 · 15 min · Video premieres Thu, Nov 19
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Running a team of specialized local agents with OpenClaw, and what they’re actually connected to: email, calendar, an Obsidian vault, and more.
Takeaway (straight from the slide): these aren’t API wrappers, they’re real tools. The depth of tool integration is what makes a “second brain” real instead of a metaphor.
More: Building the agentic economy: my second brain powered by OpenClaw · Hermes vs OpenClaw
Claude Code’s Chrome Extension: What Works and What Doesn’t
January 2026 · 16 min · Video premieres Thu, Dec 10
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Browser automation with Claude Code driving Chrome, including a web-testing example where the agent opens your local server, fills in a form, and reports what it saw.
Takeaway: an honest look at what works and where it still falls short.
Cursor Tips and Tricks
July 2, 2025 · 13 min · Talk page · Watch on YouTube
Cursor on your phone: add it to the home screen as a web app. Click to watch.
Connecting Slack and Cursor so I could kick off work from my phone, then watching background agents build, break, and fix a site on their own.
Takeaway: Cursor gives you both options: a quick chat (even through Slack) for background work like checks and unit tests, and the full IDE when you need it.
Controlling Odoo ERP with an AI Agent over MCP
May 2025 · 10 min · Video premieres Thu, Jan 7
Thumbnail via AIMUG.
Connecting an AI agent to Odoo, an open-source ERP, over MCP, so the agent can work inside real business software instead of just talking about it.
Takeaway: with MCP, an agent can act on the systems a business runs on, not just chat about them.
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