LinkedIn scripts 80% of its agent workflow to limit hallucinations
Walmart is governing employee-built agents, while Forethought co-founder Sami Ghoche says Zendesk's 20 billion conversations still need data pipelines.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: VentureBeat
Why it matters
The production agent stack is shifting toward deterministic control, persistent state and vendor-neutral gateways. That favors infrastructure builders while forcing application founders to define exactly where model autonomy earns its cost and risk.
Animesh Singh, LinkedIn's senior director of AI platform and infrastructure, said the professional network has shifted roughly 80% of one agent workflow into scripted, deterministic code after finding that an LLM supervising another LLM could reproduce the same failure modes.…