Harnesses & Second Brains: Agents In Production
Everyone's talking about AI. Far fewer people are actually building with it in ways that hold up under real usage. This edition of the DevC Dugout is about the second category.
We're bringing together founders and operators from across the Bay Area and beyond, who've moved past the demos and into the hard, unglamorous work of making AI genuinely useful — the kind that runs in production, survives contact with real customers, and quietly reshapes how a company operates.
The evening centers on two ideas. Harnesses: the scaffolding, guardrails, and orchestration that turn a capable-but-unreliable model into something you can actually trust in your stack. And second brains: the personal and organizational systems people are building to offload memory, reasoning, and judgment to AI without losing the plot.
Who you'll hear from:
Aakash Kumar - MD, Z47 & DeVC. Bringing the investor-and-builder lens on where AI-native companies are actually creating durable value versus chasing hype.
Shashank Kumar - Co-founder, Razorpay. On scaling infrastructure that millions depend on, and what that discipline teaches you about deploying AI responsibly at scale.
Sudarshan Kamath - Founder, Smallest AI. Building at the frontier of efficient, deployable voice AI and the engineering tradeoffs that make or break it.
Expect a candid, off-the-record kind of conversation: what's genuinely working, what broke in ways nobody warns you about, and where these founders think the next real leverage is. Less keynote, more the honest hallway conversation you actually came for.
Come for the talks, stay for the room — this is as much about who you'll meet as what you'll hear.
📍 311 California St., San Francisco
🗓️ Monday, July 27 · 6 PM local time
🎟️ Space is limited — reserve your spot below.
Hosted by Z47 & DeVC, Razorpay, and Smallest AI