AI Agents in Production: What It Actually Takes | MongoDB.local NYC 2026
Subscribe to the MongoDB for Developers YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MongoDBDevelopers?sub_confirmation=1 Explore MongoDB Atlas Agent Engine: https://www.mongodb.com/products/platform/atlas-agent-engine AI agent demos are easy to build. Making agents dependable in production takes more: durable execution, verification, observability, cost-aware model routing, and security controls that work across tools and workflows. Recorded at MongoDB.local NYC 2026, moderator Sophia Dew of MTS Live is joined by Maxim Fateev (Co-founder and CTO, Temporal), Louis Vichy (Co-founder, OpenRouter), and Walden Yan (Co-founder and CPO, Cognition). The panel explores what it takes to run AI agents at scale, including recovery from failures, software testing and evaluation, model selection and cost, sandboxing and access controls, centralized guardrails, human oversight, and the next frontier of operating software built by AI. Chapters 00:00 Welcome: What does production AI take? 00:53 Why productionizing agents is an organizational challenge 02:06 Enterprise control planes, governance, and visibility 04:16 Why agents need to test and verify their work 06:12 Model routing, evaluations, and agent costs 09:50 Durable execution for long-running agents 12:23 Guardrails for agent-generated code and actions 13:28 Secrets, sandboxing, and agent security 16:01 Tracking network calls, credentials, and permissions 20:40 Centralized guardrails and the limits of human approvals 24:11 New frontiers: agents for security work 26:22 Agents beyond engineering: finance, GTM, and support 28:00 The next frontier: operating AI-generated software 29:11 Open models, self-hosting, and enterprise tradeoffs 31:42 What will still be unsolved next year? 33:03 Outcome-driven agents and organizational politics 34:01 Closing remarks #AI #AIagents #MongoDB Visit Mongodb.com → https://mdb.link/MongoDB Read the MongoDB Blog → https://mdb.link/Blog Read the Developer Blog → https://mdb.link/developerblog MongoDB for Developers YouTube Channel → https://www.youtube.com/@MongoDBDevelopers