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Podium Built Their Own AI Agent Runtime. Then Ditched It.

LangChain2 September 2026Watch on YouTube

What you'll learn

  • You learn why Podium first built and repeatedly refactored its own runtime for AI agents
  • You see the moment it became clear that building own infrastructure was not the right place for innovation
  • You hear why Podium chose to migrate to LangGraph and LangSmith deployments
  • You discover how Podium redirected its innovation capital away from infrastructure

Frequently asked questions

Why did Podium initially set up its own runtime for AI agents?
LangGraph did not exist yet at the time, so Podium built its own runtime and repeatedly refactored it for production AI agents.
Why did Podium eventually migrate to LangGraph and LangSmith?
Podium realized infrastructure was not the place to spend its innovation capital and therefore chose to migrate to LangGraph and LangSmith deployments.

Topics

ai-agentslanggraphlangsmithproductioninfrastructure

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Description from the channel

Before LangGraph existed, Podium hand-rolled and repeatedly refactored its own runtime for production AI agents. Walker Ward explains the moment it became obvious that infrastructure wasn't where Podium should be spending its innovation capital, and why they migrated to LangSmith deployments instead. #AIagents #LangGraph #Shorts