90% of AI prototypes never reach production (w/ Temporal's Samar Abbas) | AI Basics

All right, everybody, welcome back to our basic series. What is our basic series? Well, on This Week in Startups, we get asked the same basic questions over and over again. Sometimes it's a legal question for founders, sometimes it's finance, sometimes it's about product market fit or getting customers. And increasingly, and almost all the time, it's about basic things in AI.

Every startup is not just building AI products, but they're using AI to build those products, right? It's uh you can only be competitive today if you're using AI inside your startup so today on AI basics our guest is Samar Abbas he is the CEO of Temporal T-E-M-P-O-R-A-L dot Io if you want to go take a look at the website and he's a 20-year engineering veteran worked at AWS, Microsoft, and Uber. Today we're going to talk about why agents desperately need harnesses and how enterprises can safely dip their toes into the agentic era and why he's building temporal on Google Cloud.

Welcome, Samar. Thanks, Jason, for having me here. Excited for coming with you. And so you've been at this for a while. You've been an engineer for a while.

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