{"podcast":{"title":"AI + a16z","slug":"ai-a16z-6874937","podcast_index_feed_id":6874937,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/Hb_IuXOo","website_url":"https://ai-a16z.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/89450696-5007-4713-8168-eea085e49626/80ad2223-d8fa-4bb2-9645-8e2c1168a372/3000x3000/ai-a16z-podcast-cover-art-2.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Derrick Harris","episode_count":100,"summary":"Artificial intelligence is changing everything from art to enterprise IT, and a16z is watching all of it with a close eye. This podcast features discussions with leading AI engineers, founders, and experts, as well as our general partners, about where the technology and industry are heading.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-16T06:20:43.738545+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-a16z-6874937"},"episode":{"title":"Durable Execution and the Infrastructure Powering AI Agents","slug":"durable-execution-and-the-infrastructure-powering-ai-agents","published_at":"2026-02-19T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-a16z-6874937/durable-execution-and-the-infrastructure-powering-ai-agents","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-a16z-6874937","url":"https://ai-a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/durable-execution-and-the-infrastructure-powering-ai-agents-edrnjoca-sPuB7Zdw","audio_url":"https://mgln.ai/e/1344/afp-848985-injected.calisto.simplecastaudio.com/112866f3-1a50-4a8d-b12e-850b73e71b33/episodes/246f01f7-e84a-4731-bdcb-f716706157fd/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=112866f3-1a50-4a8d-b12e-850b73e71b33&awEpisodeId=246f01f7-e84a-4731-bdcb-f716706157fd&feed=Hb_IuXOo","summary":"Raghu Raghuram, Managing Partner at a16z, and Sarah Wang, General Partner at a16z, speak with Samar Abbas, CEO of Temporal, about how durable execution became the infrastructure layer behind some of the world’s most widely used AI agents. They cover why long-running agents require state management and recoverability, how Temporal powers OpenAI’s Codex and Snap’s Story processing, and why the shift from interactive to background agents is creating distributed systems challenges at a scale that didn’t exist two years ago.","meta_description":"Raghu Raghuram, Managing Partner at a16z, and Sarah Wang, General Partner at a16z, speak with Samar Abbas, CEO of Temporal, about how durable execution be…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3826,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ai-a16z-6874937/episodes/durable-execution-and-the-infrastructure-powering-ai-agents/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-a16z-6874937/durable-execution-and-the-infrastructure-powering-ai-agents.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}