The Agents Were Fine. Everything Around Them Broke. - Joey Wang, Harvey
AI Engineer — Nov 10, 2026 — talk
Why watch
Joey Wang shares lessons learned from building Spectre, Harvey's internal cloud agent platform after 10,000 AI agent-written pull requests. The talk covers three architectural decisions: allowing engineers to choose their own agent while maintaining platform accountability, enabling agents to call other agents as actions, and the cascading infrastructure failures (alert storms, cluster exhaustion, merge queue breakdown) that resulted. For platform engineers and AI engineering teams building agentic workflows at scale.