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Creator of dmux, ArrowJS, FormKit, AutoAnimate, Tempo, zodown X/Twitter: https://x.com/jpschroeder LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpschroeder/ GitHub: https://github.com/justin-schroeder --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/spNAUEgq_A8-the-future-is-domain-specific-agents Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- canonical: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/explore/video/the-future-is-domain-specific-agents-justin-schroed-c729a8c4aca0 markdown: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/video/the-future-is-domain-specific-agents-justin-schroed-c729a8c4aca0.md llms: null parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md' channel: aidotengineer updated: '2026-10-24T08:51:19.180Z' language: null children: [] videoId: spNAUEgq_A8 durationSeconds: 1838 publishedAt: '2026-06-29T03:00:14.000Z' searchChunks: - 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It may also be the unlock for useful AI. A Gmail agent is fundamentally more powerful than a Gmail skill — and when composed with Sheets, Notion, and GitHub agents, the system gets more capable, more reliable, and cheaper to run. Suddenly, smaller models can do real work, and AI can move from internal copilots to customer-facing products. In this talk, we’ll unpack why this architecture hasn’t become the default yet, what’s been missing, and how to start building toward it today. Speakers: - Justin Schroeder (StandardAgents): Co-founder of StandardAgents. Compulsive open source builder. Creator of dmux, ArrowJS, FormKit, AutoAnimate, Tempo, zodown X/Twitter: https://x.com/jpschroeder LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpschroeder/ GitHub: https://github.com/justin-schroeder --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/spNAUEgq_A8-the-future-is-domain-specific-agents Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/explore/video/the-future-is-domain-specific-agents-justin-schroed-c729a8c4aca0 · Channel: [AI Engineer](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks > Missing: no stored document chunks are available.