Why AI Infrastructure must evolve for Agent Experience — Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO
- ID
- 3472
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 09 Jul 2026, 6:55 AM
- Fetched
- 09 Jul 2026, 7:25 AM
- Provider
- Latent Space
- Category
- developer-ai
- Original URL
- https://www.latent.space/p/modal2026
- Source URL
- https://www.latent.space/feed
Summary
- Score
- 7.5
- Created
- 09 Jul 2026, 7:25 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersai-ml-learnersai-agent-userssaas-founders
What happened
Modal CTO Akshat Bubna discusses why AI infrastructure is shifting to support 'Agent Experience' and shares lessons from building Modal's agent cloud. The conversation covers what has changed in the two years since Latent Space's first Modal coverage and why agent workloads now demand different infrastructure primitives.
Why it matters
For developers and AI agent builders in Malaysia and Southeast Asia, infrastructure choices directly affect cost, latency, and scalability of agent deployments. Understanding where agent cloud tooling is heading helps builders pick platforms and architect workloads that won't need rewriting in 12 months.
Discussion angle
What infrastructure gaps do current agent frameworks still assume away, and how should small teams evaluate whether a platform like Modal is worth adopting over self-hosting on conventional cloud?