Execution Layer

• Aug 05, 20268 min read

  Agents aren't software. A conversation with Jeff Dean helped me see why.

  Reliability was designed at write time because code was deterministic. Agents break that assumption, and the layer beneath them, from checkpointing to recovery, has to be rebuilt around a new question: what does it mean to resume a half-finished judgment?

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• Jul 16, 20264 min read

  Runta: the execution layer for agents

  Runta is the execution layer for AI agents: computers they run on, secrets they can use without seeing, and access you govern. $20M seed led by Martin Casado at Andreessen Horowitz.

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