Latent Space published a new interview with Modal CTO Akshat Bubna on how AI infrastructure is changing for agent workflows. The discussion focuses on why agent experience is becoming a distinct infrastructure concern.
Agents create different operational demands than simple API calls, including longer-running work, tool use, observability, and repeatable environments. Infrastructure built for short inference requests often needs to adapt to those patterns.
The piece reflects a broader shift in AI tooling: teams are optimizing not only for model performance but for the experience of building, debugging, and running agents reliably.