AI may become the interface and operating system through which we use software. Illia Polosukhin explains why agent-first experiences could reshape traditional SaaS products. 🎥piped.video/watch?v=eZZRC9i8…

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"Probably a lot of people in this room have had this experience of taking your prompt, rewording things, putting things in all caps at the end of the instructions, adding some exclamation points. Maybe after the third exclamation point, you start to feel like this isn't the right control surface for hard control." Our CTO @profdanklein has been on a lot of stages this year, most recently at @stepconference and the question he keeps getting asked is why agentic AI stalls between the demo and production. His answer starts with the control surface. A prompt turns every instruction into a suggestion. "Be reassuring" and "loan quotes are only authorized through this API" get exactly the same treatment, and capitalization doesn't change that. Plenty of CX agents take actions today. The question is what holds them inside policy while they do it. If the answer is a prompt, the rule is soft. If the answer is a second model checking the first, the rule is harder, and you're paying for it in latency, cost, and complexity. A disputed charge or a rebooking mid-cancellation needs a rule the model can't override in the first place. Our model, APT, puts those constraints inside the model itself and verifies them there. The hard requests get handled with guarantees.

Agents could soon build more apps than human developers. Anurag Goel shares Render’s long-term view on agent-generated code and why the company is staying focused on application developers. 🎥 piped.video/af1GczKfv7Y

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AI should do more than cut labor costs. Cheryl Cheng explains why the stronger opportunity is building AI-native companies that create categories and services that could not exist before. 🎥 piped.video/watch?v=AMUc9Q5c…

Physical AI companies can be global from day one. Bilal Zuberi explains why innovation in physical industries can scale across markets and why VCs need to look beyond the US. 🎥piped.video/watch?v=3WPe3NNT…

Categories are being redefined every few months, and speed has moved from a competitive edge to an absolute requirement for companies who want to last. As our Chief Marketing & Growth Officer, Guy Marion, broke down at @stepconference SF this month: winning in a fast-moving market comes down to a clear, repeatable formula. Teams need the systems to build context across online signals and sales touch points, track whether AI feature adoption is actually sticking, and pinpoint where customers get real value, so they can define pricing and take it to market fast. The gap between understanding customer value and putting a price on it is where expansion revenue leaks. When product engagement moves as fast as it does today, your monetization strategy can’t sit waiting in an engineering backlog. Chargebee Billing and Chargebee Growth unite real-time usage data with automated billing infrastructure. By giving Product and Revenue teams the ability to meter consumption, test packaging, and roll out value-based pricing instantly, Chargebee ensures your pricing strategy moves at the same speed as your product innovation. Read the full Go-To-Market Playbook to see how modern teams align product velocity with revenue growth: bit.ly/4yxoLaq and watch the full Step SF panel recording here: bit.ly/4j6jNgh #Chargebee

Scaling agents? Do not try to solve every governance problem at once. Rikki Singh explains why teams should start with one use case and build a system that can evolve. 🎥 piped.video/pv0EC_8x7j0?si=V88i…

Make AI agents auditable. Nyah Macklin explains why traceability is essential when agents operate in production, especially when security and accountability are involved. 🎥 piped.video/pv0EC_8x7j0?si=V88i…

What happens when new revenue jumps from $2M to $9M without 4x more reps or 3x the budget? Jeremy Kaufmann explains how technology and latent demand are rewriting the SaaS growth playbook. 🎥 piped.video/rfcC2GWwsHQ

We wrapped up two days at @stepconference SF. Amazing conversations with founders and builders, building the next generation of AI agents. Here are some sneak peeks from the conference 👇🏻