Speaker

Aleksandr Nikolenko

Member of Technical Staff @ Perplexity AI

Serbia

I'm a Member of Technical Staff at Perplexity, working on search infrastructure and the API platform behind long-running AI agents. Before that, I spent several years at Yandex building high-load distributed financial systems and leading a payments platform engineering team.

At MDC 2026

Sessions

PresentationSat 7 Nov · 16:30–17:00 · Main Stage

Delegating Work to Agents: Goal, Verifier, Workspace

I will talk about migrating a legacy search service from Python to Rust with AI agents doing all the work. I will start with the dream of leaving them alone for a week and coming back to a finished service. I'll show where that broke and what we had to build by hand first. Listeners will leave with a scheme for what to hand to agents, what to keep, and why the fully autonomous loop didn't close yet.

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