--- schema: 1 type: video title: >- Why One AI Agent Isn’t Enough (And How to Run 1,000) - CJ Avilla & Harrison Stall, Anthropic description: >- Ken Thompson built Unix in a month. IBM put 1,000 engineers on OS/360. And in 1998, Linus Torvalds hit his limit. Now we're hitting that same wall managing AI agents. Anthropic's CJ Avilla and Harrison Stall introduce Flows in Claude Managed Agents. You hand Claude a goal, and it plans and runs its own multi-agent topology of up to 1,000 agents through the API. In this hands-on workshop they demo a stock watchlist scanner, show how to spend more compute on the phases that matter, walk through the Bug Hunter and Explainer Studio templates, and explain why single agents fail through laziness, self-preference bias and goal drift. They finish with a deep dive on running agents safely at scale: budgets, interrupts, auto mode, credential vaults and network lockdown. Speakers: CJ Avilla, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic X: https://x.com/cjav_dev Harrison Stall, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic X: https://x.com/HarrisonStall https://www.anthropic.com 0:00 Unix vs. OS/360: the scaling problem 6:00 Meet CJ & Harrison 7:00 Introducing Flows in Claude Managed Agents 9:05 Why single agents hit a wall 14:00 How dynamic workflows work 17:25 Demo: stock watchlist scanner 23:20 From console to production: tuning each phase 32:15 Q&A, round 1 1:04:45 Bug Hunter: multi-agent PR review 1:07:15 Explainer Studio: flows that make videos 1:12:15 Laziness, self-bias & goal drift 1:15:20 Agent safety at scale 1:20:05 Declare, contain, detect 1:21:15 Separating the brain from the hands 1:27:50 Credential vaults & locking down tools 1:31:45 Wrap-up + Q&A, round 2 Live from the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel in New York City, AI Engineer New York 2026 is an AI conference for engineers and technical leaders building production AI across banking, hedge funds, fintech, insurance, and asset management. 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IBM put 1,000 engineers on OS/360. And in 1998, Linus Torvalds hit his limit. Now we're hitting that same wall managing AI agents. Anthropic's CJ Avilla and Harrison Stall introduce Flows in Claude Managed Agents. You hand Claude a goal, and it plans and runs its own multi-agent topology of up to 1,000 agents through the API. In this hands-on workshop they demo a stock watchlist scanner, show how to spend more compute on the phases that matter, walk through the Bug Hunter and Explainer Studio templates, and explain why single agents fail through laziness, self-preference bias and goal drift. They finish with a deep dive on running agents safely at scale: budgets, interrupts, auto mode, credential vaults and network lockdown. Speakers: CJ Avilla, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic X: https://x.com/cjav_dev Harrison Stall, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic X: https://x.com/HarrisonStall https://www.anthropic.com 0:00 Unix vs. OS/360: the scaling problem 6:00 Meet CJ & Harrison 7:00 Introducing Flows in Claude Managed Agents 9:05 Why single agents hit a wall 14:00 How dynamic workflows work 17:25 Demo: stock watchlist scanner 23:20 From console to production: tuning each phase 32:15 Q\&A, round 1 1:04:45 Bug Hunter: multi-agent PR review 1:07:15 Explainer Studio: flows that make videos 1:12:15 Laziness, self-bias & goal drift 1:15:20 Agent safety at scale 1:20:05 Declare, contain, detect 1:21:15 Separating the brain from the hands 1:27:50 Credential vaults & locking down tools 1:31:45 Wrap-up + Q\&A, round 2 Live from the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel in New York City, AI Engineer New York 2026 is an AI conference for engineers and technical leaders building production AI across banking, hedge funds, fintech, insurance, and asset management. 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