Ep206: Building Agentic Products at Enterprise Scale with Datadog, Fireworks, Okta, Writer AI and AWS

If you're betting on agentic AI, hear directly from the builders navigating the challenges, innovating pricing models, and creating the coming reality where every employee manages thousands of agents.

Topics Include:

• Four panelists represent the full AI stack: build, run, secure, monitor.
• Agentic AI moved faster than anyone predicted just 18 months ago.
• Writer AI's no-code agent builder missed both its target personas entirely.
• Non-technical users now just prompt agents instead of building workflows.
• Fireworks AI processes over ten trillion tokens daily across open models.
• DeepSeek's Christmas release tripled Fireworks' capacity needs almost overnight.
• Okta identified agent identity as a security problem from day one.
• 91% of organizations are already using AI agents in some capacity.
• Datadog evolved naturally from dashboards to autonomous investigative agents.
• Bits.ai agents now diagnose production incidents before engineers wake up.
• Trust requires explainability — black-box agents stall enterprise adoption cold.
• Human-in-the-loop remains essential; risk tolerance varies wildly by organization.
• Writer AI compressed a four-month retail workflow down to one week.
• Multi-provider inference consistency is one of the hardest unsolved infrastructure problems.
• Agentic pricing models are fundamentally broken for enterprise budget planning today.
• Agents managing agents means every employee becomes a manager of thousands.
• POC data gaps are the most underrated blocker to production deployment.
• Security must be designed in from the start — retrofitting is painful.
• Build evaluations first so you know if you're actually improving anything.
• Find your uniquely differentiated data and build your agentic bet there.

Participants:

• Yannick Guillerm – Regional Manager, Sales Engineering, Datadog
• Ray Thai – Director of Product Management, Fireworks AI
• Andrew Yu – Vice President of Engineering, Okta
• Matan-Paul Shetrit – Director of Product Management, Writer AI
• Moderator: Carol Potts – General Manager, North America ISV Sales, AWS

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