Why the Gateway Approach to Agents Sucks (and What to Do Instead) with Marek Poliks
James Governor sits down with Marek Poliks, Head of AI at LaunchDarkly, for a spicy conversation about what it actually takes to manage agents in production. Marek makes the case that feature flags were almost designed for this moment: pulling agents out of application code lets teams gate, roll back, and iterate on whole agent harnesses as testable variations rather than hard-coded entities. Along the way he argues that everyone is now experimenting in production whether they admit it or not, and that the popular gateway approach introduces brittle third-party dependencies at the most…
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