Antimetal builds production engineering agents that operate across hundreds of customer software systems. To be effective, these agents require the same context an experienced engineer has: what depends on what, what changed recently, how failures propagate, what each piece means to the team that runs it. Most of that information is not explicitly documented anywhere. To solve this problem, we’ve built a world model: a unified, machine-legible representation of any customer’s software systems. This talk presents the engineering and process behind constructing it, including a provider-agnostic ontology, linking runtime to code, streaming updates in, causal reasoning and inference, among much more. We close with where the model breaks down today and the open problems we are still working through.
Shreyas Iyer is the co-founder and CTO of Antimetal, building autonomous agents to run production. He has spent his career in DevOps and SRE at companies big and small. He was most recently a systems engineer at Facebook on their data center infrastructure team.
