World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage • Jul 2, 2026 • Session details

Your AI Agent is just a while loop with an API call. Let me prove it

Michał Michalczuk

Your complex AI agent is just a stateless language model trapped inside a while loop. Strip away the abstractions to master agent architecture, token economics, and sandbox security.

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