AI Engineer YouTube · May 7, 2026

Playground in Prod: Optimising Agents in Production Environments — Samuel Colvin, Pydantic

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Why it matters

Deploying an agent is only the start. In this workshop, Samuel Colvin shows how to improve agents after they are already live, using Pydantic AI and Logfire to change prompts, models, and other parameters in production without redeploying or restarting services. The session covers managed variables for live prompt and

My takeaway: Deploying an agent is only the start. In this workshop, Samuel Colvin shows how to improve agents after they are already live, using Pydantic AI and Logfire to change prompts, models, and other parameters in production without redeploying or restarting services. The session covers managed variables for live prompt and