AI Agents Are Finally Production-Ready — Here's What Changed

Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Richard Seroter from Google Cloud joins to unpack what actually changed this year, why standards like MCP and A2A finally matter, and what skills developers really need next. Richard Seroter is currently a Senior Director and the Chief Evangelist at Google Cloud where he leads the teams building and championing the future of development.

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AI Agents Are Finally Production-Ready — Heres What Changed — Interview

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$DeepSeek V4 Flash: The Best Open Model You can Actually Run! DeepSeek V4 Flash (Official) Runs Locally: Benchmarks, Cost, and DGX Spark Setup I test the official DeepSeek V4 Flash (July 31 edition) running entirely locally and break down DeepSeek’s released benchmarks, where it beats the prior V4 Pro/Flash preview and even outperforms larger models like GLM 5.2, while approaching Opus 4.8 for a fraction of the size. I also explain why benchmark harnesses matter (including DeepSeek’s agent harness and an OpenAI harness example) and highlight internal DS Bench results. I cover pricing (about $0.02/M input tokens and ~$0.30/M output tokens), token efficiency on the AI Index cost curve, and agentic coding results like Terminal Bench. Then I demo Open Code harness runs (Pokémon encyclopedia and an International Space Center tracker), show ~20–30 tok/s on two DGX Sparks in FP4, discuss the 1M context window, hardware/VRAM needs for 4-bit and 3-bit, and options like Dwarf Star for SSD offloading and mixed precision. Thanks to @NVIDIADeveloper for DGX Sparks. LINK: https://www.deepseek.com/en/ https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/responses_api/ https://github.com/antirez/ds4 https://x.com/UnslothAI/status/2083231049434435596 https://artificialanalysis.ai/#intelligenceDwarfStar https://x.com/stevibe/status/2083120066678464750 Video: https://youtu.be/9gHcmhUDJfw Long Running Agents: https://youtu.be/ju7R6jer6_M My voice to text App: whryte.com Website: https://engineerprompt.ai/ RAG Beyond Basics Course: https://prompt-s-site.thinkific.com/courses/rag Signup for Newsletter, localgpt: https://tally.so/r/3y9bb0 0:00 - Introduction to DeepSeek V4 Flash 0:55 - Shocking Benchmark Results & Performance Efficiency 0:2:42 - The Impact of Optimized Harnesses on Performance 0:4:23 - Pricing & The Pareto Frontier of Cost vs. Intelligence 0:5:04 - Running DeepSeek V4 Flash Locally 0:7:20 - Live Demo: Agentic Coding & Pokemon Encyclopedia Test 0:8:34 - Live Demo: ISS Tracker with Real-time UI 0:9:39 - Limitations: Text-only & Multimodal Alternatives 0:10:51 - Hardware Requirements for Local Setup 0:12:52 - Final Results & Summary$

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