The DevFest Community Workshop Experience: Building Real Agents Together

The useful part

This week we kicked off the DevFest season in North America at Google Hudson Square in New York City with 80 engineers packed into the room. Typical technical workshops hand you a finished repo, tell you to blindly paste blocks of code into your terminal, and hope nothing crashes. Workbench focuses on understanding core ideas and architectural models rather than obsessing over syntax and code snippets.

How it works

• A glimpse into the Workshop Experience At the DevFest Community Workshop, we spent one intense day building long-running, self-evolving multi-agent systems powered by Google's agentic stack.
• They set the tone for the entire day, reminding everyone that building durable software works best as a team sport where engineers share real-world patterns and build local networks that outlast any single...
• We've introduced a completely different experience called Workbench.
• Instead of getting bogged down in boilerplate, engineers spent the day grappling with the actual mental models behind graph engineering, self-evolving architectures, and automated self-patching harnesses.
• Ricky Robinett, Senior Director of Developer Marketing, kicked off the day by diagnosing why so many engineering teams hit a wall with agents.

What to take from it

Right after Ricky, Rachel Francois, Google Developer Groups (GDG) North America Program Lead, took the stage alongside GDG Brooklyn organizers to welcome the community and spotlight the power of local developer chapters. Wang & Christina Lin, Americas DevRel Team members, led the morning lab that put those runtime...

Details worth keeping

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