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Don’t build agents, build environments

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We’ve largely settled on what a coding agent is: a model working in a loop, calling tools. As a result, the hard part has moved. It’s no longer the agent loop, it’s the environment around it. This talk is about the real challenges of building fast-booting, reliable, reproducible environments for coding agents at scale.

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Don’t build agents, build environments ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 10:45am-11:05am - Track/room: Sandbox & Platform Engineering · Track 1 - Speaker(s): Adam Azzam - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: Sandbox & Platform Engineering - Room: Track 1 - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description We’ve largely settled on what a coding agent is: a model working in a loop, calling tools. As a result, the hard part has moved. It’s no longer the agent loop, it’s the environment around it. This talk is about the real challenges of building fast-booting, reliable, reproducible environments for coding agents at scale.

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