Self-Hosting Agents: What Changes When Models Become Infrastructure

What changes when the model becomes part of your infrastructure? This talk shares practical lessons from building and running self-hosted agents: hosting open models, connecting tools, managing context, and building the harness around the agent. Through live demos, we’ll explore the tradeoffs around cost, latency, reliability, and control—and how guardrails help keep agent workflows on track. You’ll leave with a starting point for running agents on your own stack.