{"podcast":{"title":"Max Agency","slug":"max-agency-7807113","podcast_index_feed_id":7807113,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1112ba400/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/supermix2","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/45730400/45730400-1775664525711-922be329a7b5d.jpg","author":"LangChain","episode_count":10,"summary":"Welcome to Max Agency, a podcast about how the best AI agents are actually being built. Hosted by Harrison Chase, CEO of LangChain, each episode goes deep with the builders designing, deploying, and learning from real agent systems in the wild. From architecture decisions to evals, tooling, and failure modes, Max Agency is for people who want to understand what it really takes to build useful agents.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T02:20:41.667372+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/max-agency-7807113"},"episode":{"title":"How Cogent builds AI agents that have to be right every single time | Geng Sng (Co-founder & CTO - Cogent)","slug":"how-cogent-builds-ai-agents-that-have-to-be-right-every-single-time-geng-sng-co-founder-cto-cogent","published_at":"2026-05-22T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/max-agency-7807113/how-cogent-builds-ai-agents-that-have-to-be-right-every-single-time-geng-sng-co-founder-cto-cogent","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/max-agency-7807113","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/supermix2/episodes/How-Cogent-builds-AI-agents-that-have-to-be-right-every-single-time--Geng-Sng-Co-founder--CTO---Cogent-e3jnoad","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1112ba400/podcast/play/120364813/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-22%2F424661959-44100-2-5d1e31fb98441.mp3","summary":"Geng Sng is co-founder and CTO of Cogent, which builds autonomous agents that remediate vulnerabilities for enterprise security teams. Today, Cogent's agents process billions of security events per day, maintaining a live context graph of every asset and vulnerability across customer environments. In this conversation, Geng walks through Cogent's hot vs cold context split, the sub-agents that handle side quests, and the two graphs they run in parallel. – We also discuss: Why defensive security is harder for AI than offensive Under the hood of Cogent's three agents Inside Cogent's “read only” by-default sandboxes Why graph databases don't scale for security data Cogent Research and the move into formal verification Why interactive agents need a deeper planning phase to one-shot – Referenced: Abnormal AI Amazon S3 Anthropic Bash ChatGPT Claude Code Claude Mythos CodeMender Codex Cogent Cursor Google DeepMind GPT-5.5-Cyber Jupyter Letta Mozilla OpenAI Opus 4.6 Opus 4.7 Vercel – Where to find Geng: LinkedIn – Where to find Harrison: LinkedIn Twitter/X – Where to find LangChain: Website Docs – Send feedback or questions to maxagency@langchain.dev – Timestamps: (00:00) Why mean time to exploit collapsed from years to minutes (02:08) Inside Cogent's Agent Lake architecture (05:11) Why Cogent rejected graph databases (10:48) The trust ladder before agents touch production (15:13) The three types of agents inside Cogent (17:07) How Cogent sandboxes its agents (19:16) Short-circuiting interactive agents with a deeper planning phase (24:31) What to do when users believe agents too much (31:21) Why sub-agents let agents go on side quests (34:59) Two-tiered evals and the metric that catches bad prompts (40:00) Cogent’s unique approach to context (48:39) Cogent Research and the move…","meta_description":"Geng Sng is co-founder and CTO of Cogent, which builds autonomous agents that remediate vulnerabilities for enterprise security teams. Today, Cogent's age…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4497,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/max-agency-7807113/episodes/how-cogent-builds-ai-agents-that-have-to-be-right-every-single-time-geng-sng-co-founder-cto-cogent/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/max-agency-7807113/how-cogent-builds-ai-agents-that-have-to-be-right-every-single-time-geng-sng-co-founder-cto-cogent.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}