Friday Hacks #297, August 21: Evaluating AI Agents @ Airwallex and LiquidJS - Building and Growing Open Source
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Date/Time: Friday, August 21 at 7:00pm SGT
Venue: Seminar Room 12, COM3-01-21, NUS
NUS Sign-up: Nusync
Non-NUS Sign-up: Luma
Food 🍕 and Drinks 🧋 will be served!

1) Evaluating AI Agents @ Airwallex
How do you know an agent is genuinely ready to ship?
This sharing details the evaluation loop behind Kai, Airwallex’s AI agent.
Speaker Profile 🎙️
James Li is an Engineering Manager in AI at Airwallex, leading the team behind Kai. He is also joined by Weikun and Hao-Tong, AI engineers at Airwallex who work on AI Agents and LLM Modeling respectively.
2) LiquidJS - Building and Growing Open Source
What happens when a small open-source project becomes software that thousands depend on? This talk explores how a template engine works and what growing open source actually looks like.
Speaker Profile 🎙️
Jun Yang has worked as a software engineer and architect at Microsoft, TikTok, and other tech companies. He is the creator of LiquidJS, a widely used JavaScript template engine.
👋 See you there!