AI Engineer YouTube · July 21, 2026

Your agent architecture has a half-life of 6 months — Dan Farrelly, CTO, Inngest

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Why it matters

A short history of the right way to build an agent: RAG, ReAct, prompt chaining, orchestrator-workers, MCP, CLI, MCP again... CLI again?? Every time you adopt a trend you rebuild your architecture. In this talk, Dan Farrelly, Inngest cofounder and CTO, is not going to tell you what comes next. He's going to show you ho

My takeaway: Your agent architecture has a half-life of 6 months — Dan Farrelly, CTO, Inngest is an agent-security signal. The practical read is that autonomy, memory, tool permissions, and third-party integrations are the control surface that needs threat modeling and monitoring.