Agents After Dark, by Prefactor
Conversations on AI agents in production
The people running AI agents and MCP in production, on evaluation, security, and what separates a demo from a live system.
-
Sara Abak on securing the enterprise while AI outruns the rules
Chief Information Security Officer & Industry Leader (Energy & Water), Grampians Wimmera Mallee Water
Sara Abak asks a simple question: would a carmaker ship a vehicle without a seatbelt? She argues the most powerful software ever built ships with almost no regulatio…
-
Ajay Kumar on running MCP in production
Head of MCP Services, InfoTrack
What happens when your customer is an AI agent, not a person? For 25 years InfoTrack has sold authoritative legal and property data to people clicking through interf…
-
Aaron Vanston on building trustworthy AI when a mistake can be life and death
Co-Founder and CTO, Buildpass
Construction is an unforgiving place to put AI. The data is scattered across drawings, site diaries, forms, and worker credentials, and a wrong answer can mean a def…
-
Matthew Blode on shipping 90% AI-written code at 60 million users
Senior AI Engineer, Linktree
Matthew Blode writes more than 90 percent of his code with AI, using Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Cursor, yet writes less code than he ever has. He walks Matt Doug…
-
Andrew Bird on what an AI agent actually buys
Head of AI, Affinda
Affinda sells document processing, and Andrew Bird, its first Head of AI, spent 18 months rebuilding the product on top of large language models rather than bolting …