The economics of agent scale: tokens, ROI, and building platforms for AI-first teams (Part 2)
Andi Gutmans, head of Agentic Data Cloud at Google, continues his Leaders of Code conversation by focusing on the cost and infrastructure challenges of building agentic systems, following an earlier discussion of judgment, code review, and data activation.
MAIN POINTS
- Gutmans shifts the discussion from agentic capabilities to the practical costs of deploying them.
- Infrastructure considerations are central to scaling agentic development effectively.
- The conversation is the second half of a broader Leaders of Code interview.
- Part one addressed judgment, code review, and data activation.
TAKEAWAYS
- Agentic development is not just about intelligence; operational economics matter too.
- Building scalable agentic systems requires careful infrastructure planning.
- The interview is structured to separate conceptual and practical aspects of the topic.
- Earlier themes like judgment and data activation set the foundation for this follow-up discussion.