Navigating the Future of Runtime Applications

Solomon most famously created Docker and now runs Dagger… which has something special to share with you on Thursday.

Catch Dagger at:

- Tuesday: Dagger’s workshop https://www.ai.engineer/schedule#ship-agents-that-ship-a-hands-on-workshop-for-swe-agent-builders

- Wednesday: Dagger’s talk: https://www.ai.engineer/schedule#how-to-trust-an-agent-with-software-delivery

- Thursday: Solomon’s Keynote https://www.ai.engineer/schedule#containing-agent-chaos

Chapters

• 00:00 Introduction & Guest Background
• 00:29 What is Dagger? Post-Development Automation
• 01:08 Dagger’s Community & Platform Engineers
• 02:32 AI Agents and Developer Workflows
• 03:40 Environment Isolation & The Power of Containers
• 06:28 The Need for Standards in Agent Environments
• 07:25 Design Constraints & Challenges for Dev Environments
• 11:26 Limitations of Current Tools & Agent-Native UX
• 14:11 Modularity, Customization, and the Lego Analogy
• 16:24 Convergence of CICD and Agentic Systems
• 17:41 Ephemeral Apps, Resource Constraints, and Local Execution
• 21:01 Adoption, Ecosystem, and the Role of Open Source
• 23:30 Dagger’s Modular Approach & Integration Philosophy
• 25:38 Looking Ahead: Workshops, Keynotes, and the Future of Agentic Infrastructure