AI Engineer YouTube · May 23, 2026

The Missing Primitive for Agent Swarms — Lou Bichard, Ona

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Why it matters

Stripe called theirs Minions. RAMP called theirs Inspect. Both are internal infrastructure for running fleets of background agents, and both teams built it from scratch. Lou Bichard's argument is that this shouldn't keep happening. The talk breaks down what agent swarm infrastructure actually needs: a runtime (largely

My takeaway: Stripe called theirs Minions. RAMP called theirs Inspect. Both are internal infrastructure for running fleets of background agents, and both teams built it from scratch. Lou Bichard's argument is that this shouldn't keep happening. The talk breaks down what agent swarm infrastructure actually needs: a runtime (largely