Multi-agent AI frameworks are everywhere right now—OpenAI Swarm, CrewAI, Langflow—but most of them are built Python-first. Meanwhile, a huge chunk of AI startups (60–70% in YC, by some counts) are building in TypeScript. And honestly, spinning up a whole Python backend just to leverage some of these frameworks didn’t feel worth it.

In this talk, I’ll walk through how we approached building a multi-agent AI system in TypeScript—by focusing on the core principles behind these frameworks and building something similar that fits the JS stack.

Join us for an engaging and insightful journey of transitioning a legacy web application with over 1 million users in the finance industry from Webpack to Vite. Discover the steps, challenges, and surprising moments that made this migration both an adventure and a valuable learning experience — including updating Node versions, modernizing npm packages, and unifying a custom homemade design system with a blend of SCSS and Tailwind.

Local-first apps prioritize user experience by ensuring that data is stored and processed on the user's device first, rather than relying solely on the cloud. This talk will explore the principles behind local-first software, its benefits for performance, privacy, and offline access, and how it contrasts with cloud-dependent applications, while drawing from lessons and personal experience from building makkuro.app