Axel Backlund

Cofounder, Andon Labs

Axel Backlund is Cofounder of Andon Labs and creator of Vending-Bench, pioneering real-world evaluations of autonomous AI agents across business and physical environments.

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    Agentic Engineering

    How teams build software when AI coding agents write the code: directing agents, what code review and validation become when code is nearly free, durable systems with disposable code, orchestrating many agents, keeping them safe inside an organization, and how roles change. Drawn from practitioners at HumanLayer, Sentry, Honeycomb, Google DeepMind, and others.

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    Safety for Autonomous Organizations

    Axel Backlund, cofounder of Andon Labs and creator of Vending-Bench, shares what agents running vending machines, a market, a...

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