This week was Agentic AI Foundations (AAIF) AGNTCon + MCPCon, and it was an absolutely fun time. The people, the presentations, the keynotes, and the conversations were all a major highlight and a good
Starting with Agent Substrate v0.5.0 (latest build at the time of writing this blog post on 10/17/2026), you can now run multiple Actors within one Worker (Pod). Before this
The number one rule of scaling is ensuring that you have more than enough resources readily available to consume, digest, and schedule what you need to run. In the case of agentic workloads,
Knowing what LLM you're routing to, whether or not failover for more expensive tasks exists, what LLMs are available, and policy enforcement/implementation for the people accessing LLMs are critical pathways
Many of us are "hands-on-keyboard" interacting with Agents in our terminal or via a desktop app. That's, however, when you want to do something at the exact