Tony Holdstock-Brown

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Nov 2026 first on the show

Tony Holdstock-Brown is CEO and co-founder of Inngest, which built durable workflows for background jobs before the agent wave arrived. On Chain of Thought he explained what changes when agents run for months and build up their own context, why every user's agent hits an API with thousands of requests, and what Inngest learned from running out of compute.

Latest episode with Tony Holdstock-Brown · EP 83

The Infrastructure Behind Agents That Run for Months

Tony Holdstock-Brown · Nov 12, 2026

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EP 83 · AI Agents

The Infrastructure Behind Agents That Run for Months

Nov 12, 2026 · 53 min · Transcript

Topics covered

AI Agents Open Source AI AI Evaluation & Reliability AI Observability AI Infrastructure

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The infrastructure around that is incredibly difficult because not only are you building your original product, you're now building a system of long-running agents around your product to empower your users. And the choices you make around that are super important and really, really tough.