Building more than just an agent harness

Live from Microsoft Build, Ryan is joined by Jay Parikh, Microsoft’s VP of AI Core, for a conversation on what enterprises need to build, deploy, and run AI agents at scale with demonstrable ROI; how Microsoft built an end-to-end agent development system that goes past just the harness; and how you can evaluate for reliability and correctness in models that get more intelligent and autonomous everyday.
Episode notes:
This episode was recorded at Microsoft Build (build.microsoft.com/en-US/home). Learn more about the announcement and news from Build, including Microsoft’s new GitHub app (github.com/github/app) and Foundry platform (azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-foundry), at the Microsoft blog (blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/06/02/microsoft-…).
Connect with Jay on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/jayparikh).
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