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Don’t build agents, build environments
Adam Azzam
- When
- Wednesday, July 110:45 AM – 11:05 AM · 20 min
- Where
- Track 1San Francisco, CA · imported from ai.engineer's public schedule feed
About this session
We’ve largely settled on what a coding agent is: a model working in a loop, calling tools. As a result, the hard part has moved. It’s no longer the agent loop, it’s the environment around it. This talk is about the real challenges of building fast-booting, reliable, reproducible environments for coding agents at scale.
Speaker
Adam Azzam
Member of Product Staff, Modal
Adam Azzam is a Member of Product Staff at Modal, a high-performance AI infrastructure platform. Before Modal, Adam was VP of Product at Prefect and maintainer of Prefect and FastMCP. He holds a PhD in mathematics.
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