Baseten's Philip Kiely: agents need gateways, sandboxes and post-training, not just inference
AccBalanced · x · 2026-11-04
Baseten's Philip Kiely admits "for years I said inference is everything. I was wrong": agent products need a full infrastructure suite —
- Gateways and routers to manage model heterogeneity
- Sandboxes to execute tool calls and run code
- Post-training to turn traces into specialized intelligence
The post quotes amiruci's article "The building blocks of the open frontier," which breaks down how models, serving infrastructure, training, and agent orchestration combine into a complete AI product system.
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