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Chetan Conikee is the founder and CEO of Modiqo, an AI agent infrastructure startup. His background spans financial messaging protocols, VM hypervisors, Language compilers and application security. He writes about agent infrastructure, complex systems, and AI economics. Connect with Chetan →

The week GPT-6 Astra shipped was also the week two agent-swarm incidents got their full write-ups. Read together, they are one story: agents are now good enough to coordinate, and our infrastructure for containing, pricing, and reviewing them is not.

Jeff Martens is CEO of Determinate Systems, where he works on making software development and delivery more reproducible, secure, and reliable with Nix. He's a two-time founder and led product teams at companies such as New Relic and Pagerduty, with a focus on the tools devs depend on to build, ship, and operate software at scale.

He believes that as AI makes software creation faster and more autonomous, and the production targets more consequential, the systems around us need to become more deterministic for the sake of reliability and security.

Peter Bell advises CTOs on building their agentic SDLC and runs IRL events for senior engineering leaders, supported by select dev tool companies. He hosts the executive summits for CNCF at KubeCon, he’s writing the O’Reilly book on Scaling AI Adoption in Engineering and builds and run his own agentic orchestrator for automating outreach, research and writing.

Steven Schkolne is a computer scientist, designer, and entrepreneur who’s particularly passionate about the way humans work creatively with machines. His current focus is Moonchild, an AI-native product design tool. Connect with Steven →