Your AI Agents Shouldn't Care Where They Run - Nikhil Harithas, Factory
AI Engineer — Nov 3, 2026 — talk
Why watch
Nikhil Harithas from Factory explains how they redesigned their coding agent Droid to run on customer-controlled cloud infrastructure rather than the vendor's machines. This talk covers the architectural challenges of building a compute gateway, relay system, BYOK model, and VPC isolation for enterprise AI agents serving regulated industries like banks. For platform engineers and AI infrastructure developers building enterprise-grade agents.