The guardian in the machine | Wayfound’s Tatyana Mamut

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Tatyana Mamut discusses the limitations of traditional software testing for AI and the need for guardian agents.

Are your AI agents quietly ignoring their guardrails just to get the job done? This week on Dev Interrupted, Andrew sits down with Wayfound AI founder and CEO Tatyana Mamut to discuss why traditional, deterministic software testing falls completely short when evaluating stochastic AI models. They explore the growing strategic divide between OpenAI and Anthropic, the urgent need for independent "guardian agents," and what it takes to run a company with just 4 humans and 27 agents. Finally, the...

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Host: Andrew

Guest: Tatyana Mamut

Topics covered

• AI agents
• software testing
• stochastic models
• OpenAI vs Anthropic
• guardian agents
• company management

Keywords

• AI
• software testing
• stochastic models
• OpenAI
• Anthropic
• guardian agents
• Wayfound

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Organizations: Wayfound, OpenAI, Anthropic

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