Mason Egger

This talk argues that event-driven architecture (EDA) is the wrong abstraction for AI agents, leading to complex, tightly coupled systems. Instead, the speaker proposes durable execution as a superior model. Durable execution, exemplified by Temporal.io, offers crash-proof processing by automatically preserving application state, virtualizing execution across machines, and being time and hardware agnostic. This shift allows developers to focus on core business logic rather than managing the intricacies of event handling and system failures.