Talking Drupal #485 - AI Autonomy

Today we are talking about AI Autonomy, How it could help Drupal
Development, and AI in the future with guest Jay Callicott. We’ll
also cover AI Agents as our module of the week.


For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/485
Topics

What got you interested in this topic

What is meant by AI Autonomy

You suggested in your blog post in the Drop Times that
developers will manage AI can you elaborate

AI coming for our jobs

Drupal X

Do decoupled sites have an advantage

Is the future going to be all prompts

Skill decay

What would you say to a CEO thinking about replacing
developers with AI

Resources

Drupal is Great! Its Perception Might Not Be.

The AI-Driven Developer: From Assistance to Autonomy in
Drupal Development

DrupalX

Ethics of AI

Guests

Jay Callicott - drupalninja99
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Scott Weston - scott-weston
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted to leverage AI-powered tools to get
information about or change the configuration of your
website? There’s a module for that



Module name/project name:

AI Agents



Brief history

How old: created in Aug 2024 by Marcus Johansson
(marcus_johansson) of FreelyGive

Versions available: 1.0.1 which supports Drupal 10.3 and
11



Maintainership

Actively maintained: that release was in the past week,
and was part of the significant effort to get stable releases
of the AI modules that are included in Drupal CMS

Security coverage

Documentation included within the module’s codebase

Number of open issues: 30 open issues, 7 of which are
bugs against the current branch



Usage stats:

119 sites but I suspect that number will increase rapidly
once people start using Drupal CMS



Module features and usage

In AI terminology, an agent is a system able to interact
with its environment, collect data, and use the data to
perform self-determined tasks

The AI Agents module is a framework to provide agents
that can perform a variety of functions in your Drupal
website

It depends on the AI module that we had Jamie Abrahams on
the podcast to talk about back in episode #468

The module includes plugins that provide three agents,
namely:

A Field Type Agent that can create or edit fields using
the Field API, or answer questions about the fields your site
has defined

A Content Type agent that can create, edit, or answer
questions about node types

Taxonomy Agent that can do the same for your site’s
vocabularies

Anyone who saw the Driesnote AI demos from DrupalCon
Barcelona or Singapore will have seen agents in action, in
that example through interaction in a chatbot

Technically, the plugins are UI agnostic, however. So
theoretically you could trigger an agent in other ways. But
today, AI Agents power the AI chatbot that you can use in the
AI recipe that is included in the recently released Drupal
CMS 1.0

The AI Agents module also includes some submodules. An
experimental form integration submodule adds UI elements to
the interfaces for managing fields, content types, and
vocabularies, an explorer submodule provides debugging tools,
and an experimental Extra submodule provides agents for
working with webforms and views. I have also seen a demo of
some work underway to provide an ECA agent, so you may soon
be able to get your Drupal site to build out ECA models based
on the business logic you describe to it