Datadog and T-Mobile leaders reveal the reality of deploying AI agents in production

With careful governance and validation, AI agents are increasingly gaining adoption for specific enterprise functions, according to speakers at the AI Agent Conference this week in New York. The popularity of new, highly capable AI coding agents has grown dramatically over the past year. Still, the code they generate cannot be trusted in production, said Datadog’s Chief Scientist, Ameet Talwalkar, in the opening keynote. “One of the hardest things for humans to do is no longer building production systems. It’s actually reviewing the vibe-coded software that gets shipped into production.