Sumaiya Shrabony

This talk argues that solo builders of AI agents inevitably reinvent aspects of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, often in a less effective manner. As agents are developed, especially in isolation, builders start creating systems that require the same operational guarantees as traditional software, leading to the ad-hoc creation of testing, monitoring, and validation mechanisms. The core thesis is that without implementing deliberate gates and checks, agent systems are prone to shipping polished but flawed outputs, mirroring the software development pitfall of deploying code that compiles but fails tests.