Failover Weekly: Agents All the Way Down
This week every show landed on the same theme from different angles: AI agents are moving from demo to infrastructure problem. How do you secure them? How do you run them at scale? And what happens to everyone who isn't using them yet? We covered all of it.
From the Network
The Reasoning Show — Kagenti: A Kubernetes Control Plane for AI Agents
Morgan Foster walks through Kagenti, an open framework for running AI agents with real security controls — identity, zero-trust, authentication. If you're thinking about agents in production, this is the episode. The "just vibe and prompt" era is ending; the "how do we actually operate this" era is here.
Software Defined Talk — Episode 564: New Token Machines
NVIDIA GTC recaps, token budgets, and an AWS outage that may or may not have had something to do with AI. Matt also reviews The Wizard of Oz at The Sphere, which is either a great palate cleanser or a sign that we've all completely lost the plot.
The Cloud Pod — Episode 346: Zuckerberg Finally Finds His People, They Are All AI Agents
Justin, Ryan, and Matt dig into Meta's AI agent push and the latest from the cloud providers. If you want to know what AWS, Azure, and GCP are actually shipping — this is your show.
What I'm listening to
Tech: Plain English — Yes, AI Is a Bubble. There Is No Question.
A lot of us — myself included — have quietly started walking back our bubble skepticism. The more you actually use AI, the more the productivity gains feel real, which is exactly what you'd expect in a bubble. "This time is different" is always the warning sign. Paul Kedrosky makes the case that you can have genuine productivity gains, real value creation, and still be in a bubble. Worth hearing out.
Not tech: If Books Could Kill — Bullshit Jobs
Peter and Michael review David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs — the book that asked whether a huge chunk of modern work serves any real purpose. It's a fun listen for anyone who's spent time in corporate America, and it will absolutely make you ask yourself: is my job bullshit?
That's it for this week.
— Brandon
