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

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Podcast: [Chain of Thought | AI Agents, Infrastructure & Engineering](https://stenobird.com/podcast/chain-of-thought-ai-agents)
Published: 2026-08-12T11:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/43e97aa6
Audio file: https://media.transistor.fm/43e97aa6/c5119891.mp3
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Duration seconds: 2770

## Resource

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.

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