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Why Your ML Pipeline Needs an Agent (and How to Build One)

Talkat PyCon AU 2026 · 2026-08-26..08-30· [ai-assisted-development, machine-learning]
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Claims that an agentic ML pipeline reduces months of plumbing to minutes: a demo shows a five‑prompt chain (wine dataset) that produces ~150 lines of working notebook code, plots and a trained RandomForest in ~10 minutes versus ~7–8 hours normally. Uses Snowflake plus models from OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini, runtimes like Ray, PyTorch, XGBoost, TensorFlow, and orchestration for distributed training, ML jobs and A/B serving. Cites 6,000 customers, millions of models, trillions of predictions per month and 10× developer productivity as reported outcomes.

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  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 0:49Speaker intro
  3. 2:15ML practitioner time
  4. 4:41Context in agentic ML
  5. 6:25Unified ML agent platform
  6. 8:35Snowflake Koko internals
  7. 13:29Koko live demo
  8. 23:43ML agent architecture
  9. 25:10ML experiments to production
  10. 27:40Scaling personalized models
  11. 28:43Q&A
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