Hamish Songsmith
Head of Applied AI
Silicon Quantum Computing
Does This Agent Make My Context Look Big? Right-Sizing AI Architectures for Production
Monday, 7 December · 4:30 PM · Leadership track
Does This Agent Make My Context Look Big? Right-Sizing AI Architectures for Production
One agent that does everything is powerful, until it’s impossible to debug, eval or secure. Break it into a graph of specialised agents and you get control, until the handoffs leak, the graph jams, and the next model upgrade passes you by.
Neither approach is wrong. Each one fails in its own predictable way. This is a scar-tissue talk from building agent systems in production: where each approach bites, why, and how to choose your tradeoffs on purpose.
Hamish Songsmith
Head of Applied AI at Australia's leading Quantum Computing lab. Ex Applied AI lead at Optiver, deep experience in AI risk, governance, scalable deployments of AI agents.