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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

The operating system I’m not cool enough to run has pushed out a new release: 9front “THIS TIME DEFINITELY” is now available. 9front is a fork of plan9, created after plan9 languished at Bell Labs. This release enables gefs, the new file system, in the installer, “ip/ipconfig now support dhcpv6 dynamic allocations and handles prefix expirations”, and it comes with some smaller changes, too, of course. Despite every piece of evidence to the contrary, I am simply not cool enough to run 9front. Maybe one day they’ll notice me, and I get invited to the cool table where the Puffs eat lunch. Who doesn’t want to ring a bell in the headmaster’s office at midnight?

Dil Ko Dildar Mila | Film: Yeh Dil Ap ka huwa | Sana Moammar Rana | Sun Digital HD Channel

Gaël Monfils est allé au bout de ses forces à l’Open d’Australie. Vainqueur du tournoi d’Auckland avant de filer à Melbourne, le Français avait sorti le grand jeu samedi face au numéro 4 mondial, Taylor Fritz. Ce lundi, contre un autre Américain, Ben Shelton, la Monf’ a encore livré une superbe bataille pendant trois manches avant de craquer. Mené 7-6(3), 6-7(3), 7-6(2) après quasiment trois heures de lutte, Monfils savait sans doute que sa chance était passée. Après une longue pause et un jeu joué dans le quatrième, le joueur de 38 ans a été contraint d’abandonner après une discussion avec son clan. Touché à la cuisse, Monfils ne pouvait plus. Une fin cruelle mais la semaine a été magnifique. Gaël avait le sourire en sortant du court.

Drupal 11: Creating Custom Queues

Creating queues using the core queue classes in Drupal is fairly straightforward. You just need a mechanism of adding data to the queue and a worker to process that data.

As the data you add to the queue is serialised you can add pretty much any data you want to the queue, so the only limitation is rebuilding the data once you pull it out of the queue.

There are some situations where the core Drupal queue system needs to be altered in some way. You might want to separate the data into different tables, or have a different logic for creating or storing the queue items, or even integrate with a third party queue system for manage the queues.

Whilst all of these examples are possible, they require a certain amount of understanding of the queue API and need additional services and settings to get working.

In this article we will look at how to create a custom queue, along with the queue factory needed to integrate that queue with Drupal. We will also look at some settings needed to swap out certain queues for you custom queue implementations. All of the code seen in this article is available in our Drupal Queue Examples repository on GitHub, specifically the queue_custom_example module.

First, let’s look at what is requires for a queue to work in Drupal.

Create A Custom Queue With The QueueInterface Interface

The interface DrupalCoreQueueQueueInterface is used to build the framework of the queue, which is used to manage the queue items. Your queue object must have the following methods. 

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Sun, 01/19/2025 – 19:54

Risate e divertimento con Biagio Izzo in scena alla Sala Umberto con la commedia «L’arte della truffa», scritta da Augusto Fornari, anche alla regia, Toni Fornari, Andrea Maia e Vincenzo Sinopoli. Uno spettacolo esilarante e coinvolgente con l’attore napoletano accompagnato in scena da Carla Ferraro, Roberto Giordano, Ciro Pauciullo, Arduino Speranza e Adele Vitale. Teatro pieno, venerdì 17 gennaio, e lunghi applausi. Lo spettacolo resterà in scena fino al 2 febbraio.