Temporal co-founder and CEO Samar Abbas traces a personal arc from MS-DOS to agentic AI, arguing we are in the early era of AI agents — analogous to single-machine computing before networking unlocked distributed power. He predicts agents will move from developer laptops into secured, centralized infrastructure, creating massive distributed systems challenges. Key themes include agent sandboxing, state management, the inadequacy of existing primitives at agentic scale, and a serious security warning: running agents locally with access to company data is a 'ticking time bomb.' He envisions a future where the number of AI agents in an organization is as fluid and elastic as cloud server counts.
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