crosspost - PyLadies Vancouver July Meetup

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Join PyLadies Vancouver for our July meetup, hosted at Improving Vancouver! This month we have two talks on AI agents and large language models. ⚠️ **Please RSVP through Luma, not Meetup:** [https://luma.com/3oxfwqry](https://luma.com/3oxfwqry) Your spot is only confirmed once you register on Luma, so we can plan for the right headcount and space. **Talk 1: What Happens When Your Agent Has to Wait for a Human by Melanie Warrick** You built an agent in Python. It reasons, calls tools, handles its own steps. Then it hits a step that needs a human to approve something, and that approval might take five minutes or five days. The process sits there holding all its state in memory, waiting, until it crashes and everything the agent figured out is gone. This talk is about that moment: the agentic loop, why its state is only as durable as the process running it, and how durable execution with Temporal makes the loop survive crashes and long waits. Includes a short live demo. Melanie has been d