The Hidden Layer Every AI Agent Runs On | Tony Holdstock-Brown, Inngest
About this episode
Tony Holdstock-Brown discusses the infrastructure behind AI agents and the challenges of deploying them in production.
Tony Holdstock-Brown is the co-founder and CEO of Inngest, the durable execution platform that quietly powers your favorite AI agents. We get into why agents work in a demo and die in production, building their own cloud to get 20x lower cost, growing 35x after AWS and Cloudflare copied them, growing a dev tools company without a personal brand or Twitter account, why he thinks evals today are like “asking the criminal if they committed the crime”, and the thing they built to score 100% of your production agents without paying for LLM as a judge. Thank you to Numeral, Flex, Amplitude, Merge, and Monaco for supporting this episode. Numeral: Sales tax on autopilot https://www.numeral.com Flex: Premium banking, 60-day credit, 0% APR https://home.flex.one/referral/bananacapital Amplitude: AI analytics https://www.amplitude.com Merge: Every model, one API https://www.merge.dev/turner Monaco: The revenue engine for startups https://www.monaco.com/ Timestamps: (0:00) The hidden infra layer every AI agent runs on (1:46) Building complex chains of logic (3:31) Why agent SDK's don't go far enough (4:49) Healthcare was the original event-driven nightmare (6:32) Storing traces on your…
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Numeral, Flex, Amplitude, Merge, Monaco
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