https://karanprasad.com/blog Founder of Obvix Labs, an AI research lab building systems people can rely on. I write about what we're learning - AI safety, backend architecture, and what it takes to ship real software. en-us hello@karanprasad.com (Karan Prasad) hello@karanprasad.com (Karan Prasad) Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://karanprasad.com/blog/zapier-800-agents https://karanprasad.com/blog/zapier-800-agents Everyone sees 'Zapier runs 800 agents' and thinks the secret is multi-agent orchestration. After reading every source — the full podcast, the Stanford paper, the Spotify engineering blog, the HN failure threads — I found something different. The companies winning at agents spent years building platforms before AI arrived. The model was the last piece. Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT hello@karanprasad.com (Karan Prasad) aiagentsplatform-engineeringresearch