The New Primitives: Building AI Native Software — Kwindla Kramer, Daily
Satya Nadella frames agent architecture as a harness looping across models, data, and tools.
“you kind of want to harness to define the models, the the data, uh and the tools. And so that you have a loop across those three.”— Satya Nadella
At AI Engineer World's Fair, Kwindla Kramer of Daily (makers of Pipecat, the leading open-source voice agent framework) framed the current moment as the dawn of an 'intelligence age' analogous to the 1945 birth of computing. Embedded in the talk is a Satya Nadella quote articulating Microsoft's architectural thesis for agents: a harness that defines models, data, and tools in a continuous loop. This signals that the stack-level thinking for agents is consolidating around a three-primitive model, with major platform vendors and infrastructure players converging on the same framing.