Samar Abbas
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Samar Abbas
@SamarAtTemporal
Co-founder/CEO of Temporal Technologies (@temporalio)








"We are clearly entering a world where a product-minded engineer is now empowered to produce software without writing a line of code for it." In this conversation, Temporal CEO Samar Abbas joins a16z GPs Sarah Wang and Raghu Raghuram to cover: - Why agents are going from short-lived and interactive to long-running and async - Why the engineer of the future manages 15 parallel AI tasks at once - How OpenAI Codex runs millions of concurrent agent executions on Temporal - How real-time context engineering is exploding on Temporal - Why SaaS isn't dead, and value is migrating to APIs 00:00 Introduction 04:03 Temporal's origin story 11:14 Why agents raise the stakes 16:00 Specialized agents need durable RPC 25:20 Deep research agents 30:58 Execution histories as a superpower 39:04 Minimal viable long-running agent architecture 45:07 Context engineering at scale 52:40 Where value accrues: The "five-layer cake" and breakout AI applications @SamarAtTemporal @sarahdingwang @RaghuRaghuram

Congrats to @SamarAtTemporal & the @Temporalio team on the $300M Series D! 🌟👏 Temporal provides the infrastructure layer that helps teams run long-lived, stateful AI applications reliably & at scale, so developers can focus on innovation We’re proud back Temporal as they continue to help companies move agentic AI out of the lab & into the real world.






Agents SDK + @temporalio = durable, production-ready agents. Wrap your agent logic in a Temporal workflow to persist state, survive crashes, auto-retry failures, and run for days—with just a few lines of code. Here's how it works: youtube.com/watch?v=fwh21R…



Congrats to @temporalio on their Series C! temporal.io/blog/temporal-…



