90% of AI prototypes never reach production (w/ Temporal's Samar Abbas) | AI Basics

Jason Calacanis interviews Temporal co-founder and CEO Samar Abbas about why most AI prototypes never reach production. Abbas argues that the missing piece is not a better model but a durable execution harness that keeps an agent's work secure, recoverable, and interruption-free. He walks through what happens when an agent crashes mid-task and shows Temporal's dashboard for observing agent behavior step by step. The conversation also covers when to graduate an AI agent from laptop demos to production and how agents can be organized into teams.