AI is everywhere. No doubt that your organization is exploring how to integrate LLMs and GenAI into daily work. Now we have AI Agents and MCPs - the gap continues to widen between simple prompting in an LLM interface to fully automated agentic coding that can handle routine tasks end-to-end. This presentation will explore how one might help close that gap through a use-case scenario that was delivered as a hands-on workshop at the 2026 PHUSE US Connect in Austin, TX. The objective of the workshop was for participants to leave the session with (i) an understanding of the fundamental concepts of how LLMs and AI solutions operate, (ii) a sense of the ease of entry to get started with agentic coding and (iii) an appreciation for the effort required to engineer the initial "first solution" into a robust and stable ready-for-production solution.
Michael Rimler | Mike Stackhouse
GSK | Atorus
Agentic AI Basics: How LLMs Work
AI is everywhere. No doubt that your organization is exploring how to integrate LLMs and GenAI into daily work. Now we have AI Agents and MCPs - the gap continues to widen between simple prompting in an LLM interface to fully automated agentic coding that can handle routine tasks end-to-end. This presentation will explore how one might help close that gap through a use-case scenario that was delivered as a hands-on workshop at the 2026 PHUSE US Connect in Austin, TX. The objective of the workshop was for participants to leave the session with (i) an understanding of the fundamental concepts of how LLMs and AI solutions operate, (ii) a sense of the ease of entry to get started with agentic coding and (iii) an appreciation for the effort required to engineer the initial "first solution" into a robust and stable ready-for-production solution.