Feature flags

Prototyping as Leadership: How a CTO Ships with AI Agents — Hursh Agrawal, The Browser Company

Prototyping as Leadership: How a CTO Ships with AI Agents — Hursh Agrawal, The Browser Company

Hursh Agrawal, CTO of The Browser Company, argues that AI agents have transformed the manager's schedule into usable building time. He outlines how leaders, leveraging their deep business context, can utilize an overnight loop with AI coding agents to ship features, optimize AI models, and even train custom classifiers, which is critical for staying calibrated with rapidly evolving frontier models and effectively communicating new product possibilities.

Agents Need Feature Flags - Sachin Gupta

Agents Need Feature Flags - Sachin Gupta

AI teams are deploying advanced agent systems without the fundamental safety mechanisms (feature flags, canaries, kill switches) that web teams adopted over a decade ago. This oversight leads to critical incidents like data deletion and financial loss. This talk introduces six agent-specific feature flag types—for prompts, tools, models, memory, autonomy, and sub-agents—and outlines a practical playbook for secure AI deployment, emphasizing the critical role of a pre-wired kill switch to manage the high blast radius of AI agents.