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Parenting Your AI Agents for Best Results | Cisco's Jeetu Patel

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Chain of Thought | AI Agents, Infrastructure & Engineering
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Aug 12, 2026
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Summary

Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel returns to explain why AI agents are like teenagers: profoundly intelligent, extremely resourceful, and missing the judgment to know right from wrong. He covers dynamic runtime guardrails, rationing tokens like headcount, and why AI fluency is now a 10x differential.