I counted at least 10 events in San Francisco last night aimed at matching AI startups with VCs. Just another Thursday.
But what made Camp AI’s “Agents at Work” event (hosted by Auth0) stand out was its showcase of companies that are in various stages of reorganizing their engineering processes around AI agents. Browserbase, Mastra, Fireworks AI, Drata, Mya, MindFort, and Corridor are all part of the vendor ecosystem trying to enable secure and performant agentic AI, but the most revelatory stories were their own successes and the challenges they faced restructuring their engineering orgs for agents.
Paul Klein IV, founder and CEO of Browserbase, delivered the night’s most memorable line while discussing the speed of AI adoption inside engineering teams. “If AI is not doing your whole job it’s a skill issue at this point,” said Klein.
Abhi Aiyer, founder and CTO of Mastra, said the result is dramatically smaller teams capable of executing much larger scopes of work. “You can have one person run a whole feature project because they have an army of one to infinity AI agents behind them,” said Aiyer.
Several panelists argued that AI systems are now generating software faster than organizations can safely review and operationalize it. Aiyer said that engineering teams are opening significantly more pull requests while review throughput becomes the new bottleneck.
