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How I automate my own job at Hugging Face using agents — Niels Rogge, Hugging Face

AI Engineer · Aug 20, 2026 · Engineering Insights

Hugging Face engineer uses agents to automate migrating research model weights to the Hub

“Yeah, migrating the weights uh from Google Drive to Hugging Face actually makes perfect sense.”

Niels Rogge, ML engineer at Hugging Face for 5 years, describes how the community science team tackles the discoverability problem caused by researchers publishing model weights on Google Drive, Dropbox, and GitHub instead of the Hugging Face Hub. The talk promises to reveal how agents automate this migration and curation workflow at scale. The provided captions cut off before the automation details are shared, limiting the extractable signal.

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