I Asked Seven Questions About Our AI Agent. We Failed Five.

What's really happening inside the AI agent stack as agents move into production? The common story is that OpenAI and Anthropic decide whether your agent ships — but the reality is more complicated.

In this podcast, I share the inside scoop on the infrastructure companies quietly deciding whether AI agents reach production:

• Why runtime, identity, and data are the real control layers
• How Cloudflare, Auth0, and Snowflake gate agent deployment
• What separates a kill switch from telling the model to stop
• Where Stripe and the card networks are racing on payments

For builders and operators, the agentic shift is a real opportunity, but only if you map runtime, identity, data, payments, and observability for each workflow before it ships, not after.

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