The word "agent" is doing a lot of work right now. Every conference keynote has it. Every vendor deck leads with it. And this week, the shows got into the harder questions behind the hype: what does it actually mean to run agents in production, who owns the code they write, and what happens to your security posture when the agent is the one making commits?

Google's enterprise agent stack got its turn under the microscope on SDT. The Reasoning Show went back-to-back on software development in the age of AI — first on what it looks like to actually rebuild your dev workflow around agents, then on why "zero CVE" is a mirage when the threat surface keeps shifting. These aren't hypotheticals anymore. People are doing this. The questions are real.

From the Network

The Reasoning Show — Halt & Retool: Rewriting Software Development in the Age of AI Agents

Sam Ramji (Sailplane) on what it looks like to actually rebuild your engineering workflow around AI agents — not augmenting the old process, replacing it. The argument: orchestrating agents is the new engineering skill. The productivity gains are real, but so is the shift in what engineers actually do all day.

The Reasoning Show — The Zero-CVE Mirage: Hardening Software in the Age of AI Attacks

Matt Moore (CTO, Chainguard) on why chasing zero CVEs misses the point when AI is rewriting the threat surface faster than your tooling can track it. Secure supply chains, AI agents in dev workflows, and the uncomfortable truth about what "hardened" means now.

Software Defined Talk — The Enterprisification of Agents

Google's enterprise agent stack, what actually qualifies as an "agent," and AI's most credible critic. The usual chaos with analysis. Also: Coté wants better vision.

Podcast of the Week

VelociTEA — It's Not a Pyramid Scheme, It's a Marketing Strategy

Emily and Forrest walk through their B2B Influencer Activation Pyramid — a five-layer framework for moving buyers from awareness to advocacy. Directly relevant if you're thinking about how to build an audience-led GTM motion. The framing is better than the name suggests.

Non-Tech Pod of the Week

Puck — The 2026 Summer Blockbuster Confidence Ranking

Matt Belloni ranks this summer's big releases by how much confidence he actually has in them. Strong opinions, light stakes. Good listening.

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