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AI Agent Runtime Platforms in 2026
Survey of hosted runtimes (Vercel Agents, Modal, Inferless, replit agents) for actually running agents in prod.
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What this lesson covers
Learning path
The main moves in order
- 1The premise
- 2agent runtime
- 3hosted infra
- 4scaling
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Section 1
The premise
Pick a runtime based on cold-start, durable state, observability, and how easily you can leave it.
What AI does well here
- Handle long-running steps without timeouts
- Persist state across crashes
- Scale per-tenant
What AI cannot do
- Replace your application logic
- Make a bad agent good
- Future-proof against vendor pivots
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