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EP28: How to Control a Stochastic Agent with Stefano Soatto (VP AWS/ Pro. UCLA)
Stefano Soatto, VP for AI at AWS and Professor at UCLA, the person responsible for agentic AI at AWS, joins us to explain why building reliable AI agents is fundamentally a control theory problem.
Stefano sees LLMs as stochastic dynamical systems that need to be controlled, not just prompted. He introduces "strands coding," a new framework AWS is building that sits between vibe coding and spec coding, you write a skeleton with AI functions constrained by pre- and post-conditions, verifying intent before a single line of code is generated. The surprising part: even as AI coding adoption goes…
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