Building effective agents requires fundamental changes to how engineers think about their work. LLMs that sit at the heart of agentic systems are stochastic by nature and operate in a world that requires optimal context to produce optimal results. While models offer bigger and bigger context windows, the cost and performance during inference is tied to the consistency of context delivery and the stability of that context over time. As tool calling and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem play a larger role in agentic development, engineers need to invest in not only delivering the...
Craig McLuckie
CEO and Founder
Stacklok
Craig McLuckie is the CEO and founder of Stacklok, where a team of community-minded software engineers are working to secure the Model Context Protocol, so you can safely connect your AI agents to sensitive data and systems. Craig is recognized as a co-creator of Kubernetes and he later co-founded the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Craig was previously co-founder and CEO of Heptio, which was acquired by VMware. Craig has led large product and engineering teams at VMware, Microsoft, and Google.