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Always-on agents run production without the on-call tax — Justin Smith, Resolve AI

Aug 9, 2026 · 24:56

Justin Smith, founding product engineer at Resolve AI, says roughly 70% of an engineer's time is spent running code, not writing it, and coding agents raise that burden by pushing more changes into production. Resolve's background agents are defined by schedule, event stream, or Slack triggers; a cloud sandbox; and a learning system holding production context. A demo shows an agent watching GitHub release tags: for a release replacing a currency service, it builds a custom check plan on checkout latency, error rates, and the Kafka pipeline, with no hardcoded timing — it may wait an hour or return in three days. Another agent watches Slack, stays silent without confidence, and DMs Smith before replying. His sharpest point: execution is the easy half; deciding a metric smells off is production context.

Ionic Launch: Opening the economy to AI agents

Feb 6, 2025 · 5:30

Justin, CEO and co-founder of Ionic Commerce, presents his company's mission to enable AI agents to participate in the economy, starting with ecommerce. He argues that the current web is built for ads, not actions, leaving agents unable to access dynamic product data like stock or shipping. Ionic solves this by partnering with hundreds of merchants, enriching their product feeds via an agentic workflow, and exposing the data through an API that agents can query in their preferred format (relational, vector, graph). The platform also adds a transaction layer so agents can complete purchases in one step using payment tokens. Justin emphasizes that merchants will pay for this service because it provides better attribution and customer relationships than Amazon's cut. Ionic's catalog already includes millions of AI-native SKUs, and developers can start today at docs.ioniccommerce.com.