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Tyler Akidau

Redpanda

1 episode on Chain of Thought

Tyler Akidau is the CTO of Redpanda and the author of the O’Reilly Streaming Systems book, after twelve years on streaming systems at Google and five at Snowflake. On Chain of Thought he argued that enterprises are shipping AI agents without the governance layer they need, and laid out four pillars of "agent HR": identity, authorization, observability, and accountability.

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We never tried to make humans perfect. Every corporation in the world is stacked top to bottom with imperfect humans. And most of them live to see another day, despite of that, because of all the structural pieces that we built up around managing sets of imperfect humans.

We Built Agents, Nobody Built HR | Tyler Akidau, Redpanda