WeAreDevelopers Logo WeAreDevelopers
Sign in
For You LIVE
World Congress 2026 North America • Sep 25, 2026 • Session details

Give the Agent a Budget, Not a Token

Sachin Malhotra

An empty bash variable can cause a helpful AI to wipe out staging workloads. Protect your infrastructure by giving agents regenerating action budgets instead of static tokens.

Starting at 24:24 · Watch from the beginning

Give the Agent a Budget, Not a Token thumbnail

Checking access…

Playback and chapters load privately for Free videos.

Matching moments

1:47 min

Why tool-using AI agents require behavioral governance

Sachin Gupta Sachin Gupta · World Congress 2026 North America

1:55 min

Treating autonomous agents as privileged identities requiring safety guardrails

2:28 min

Mitigating excessive agency through scoped tool access

Deepu Deepu · World Congress 2025

2:15 min

Managing autonomous agent trust and cloud permission gaps

Jaroslaw Gajewski Jaroslaw Gajewski · World Congress 2026 Europe

1:11 min

Shifting security models from passive chatbots to active agents

Péter Farkas Péter Farkas · Europe 2026 Virtual

1:53 min

Introduction to securing open source AI agent infrastructure

Abdel Fane Abdel Fane · World Congress 2026 North America

More from World Congress 2026 North America

2026 in LLMs (so far) thumbnail
31:31

2026 in LLMs (so far)

Simon Willison · Datasette /Django

Running Operations Without Humans in the Loop thumbnail
32:31

Running Operations Without Humans in the Loop

Edward Aryee +4

Beyond the Code: Human-AI Synergies in Product Development thumbnail
17:43

Beyond the Code: Human-AI Synergies in Product Development

Ajita Kanchivakam Ananth · Google

Honey, look! I vibe-coded an OS! thumbnail
30:40

Honey, look! I vibe-coded an OS!

Ian Smith · LYOS

The Productivity Illusion: What AI Really Changed for Developers thumbnail
24:28

The Productivity Illusion: What AI Really Changed for Developers

Fatih Kadir Akın · WordPress/Automattic

Your Evals Passed. Your Agent Just Emptied a Database. thumbnail
21:37

Your Evals Passed. Your Agent Just Emptied a Database.

Tejas Pravinbhai Patel · Amazon

Upcoming sessions on this topic

Open session

Beware of Strangers Bearing Code: Open Source Trust in the Agent Era

  • Vikram Vaswani

    Consultant

Open session

Your AI Agents Are Bleeding Tokens: Building a Runtime Cost Control Plane for LLMs

  • Aakriti Aggarwal

    IBM Research

    Research Engineer

  • Bhavishya Pandit

    66degrees

    Leading AI Innovation

Open session

Autopsy of an Autonomous Incident: When the Agent Made It Worse

  • Navin Pai

    StackGen

    Director of Engineering

Open session

Ship Happens: Guardrails for AI-Written Code

  • Anthony Nguyen

    LaunchDarkly

    Senior Solutions Engineer

Open session

Teaching AI Coding Agents to Build It Right the First Time

  • Sajeetharan Sinnathurai

    Microsoft

    Principal Product Manager

Open session

The Developer’s Guide to the Agentic Git Forge: Agents That Remember

  • Haimantika Mitra

    Entire

    Senior Developer Advocate

Related videos

The day the chatbot asked for sudo thumbnail
27:48

The day the chatbot asked for sudo

Alex Olivier · Cerbos

World Congress Europe · 2026

I Don't Trust AI Agents (And Neither Should You): Building Production-Ready Architectures thumbnail
31:41

I Don't Trust AI Agents (And Neither Should You): Building Production-Ready Architectures

Darko Mesaros · AWS

World Congress North America · 2026

When Agents Became Users: Rearchitecting Identity and Permissions for AI at Scale thumbnail
30:01

When Agents Became Users: Rearchitecting Identity and Permissions for AI at Scale

Yoav Gal · monday.com

World Congress North America · 2026

Securing AI Agent Infrastructure: Identity, Attestation, and Trust at Scale thumbnail
25:54

Securing AI Agent Infrastructure: Identity, Attestation, and Trust at Scale

Abdel Fane · OpenA2A

World Congress North America · 2026

Responsible AI Architecture with Zero Trust Agents thumbnail
25:33

Responsible AI Architecture with Zero Trust Agents

Ashok Prakash · Apple

World Congress North America · 2026

Your Evals Passed. Your Agent Just Emptied a Database. thumbnail
21:37

Your Evals Passed. Your Agent Just Emptied a Database.

Tejas Pravinbhai Patel · Amazon

World Congress North America · 2026

Related articles

From learning to earning

Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.