Brains vs Hands: How to Run AI Agents Safely in Production — Viren Baraiya
AI agents in production should be treated as full applications, not isolated components.
“The last thing you want is for one agent to be responsible for many things, risking hallucinations.”
Viren Baraiya argues that production AI agents have evolved well beyond chatbots into background workers, event-driven agents, and long-running coordinators that warrant full application-level design discipline. He draws a parallel to microservices architecture, advocating for narrow agent responsibilities to reduce hallucination risk. The talk reflects a maturing industry conversation shifting from 'how to build agents' to 'how to operate them reliably at scale'.