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The Half Life of Agent Infrastructure — Ben Kus, Box

AI Engineer · Aug 29, 2026 · Engineering Insights

Box CTO warns agent infrastructure has a short half-life requiring continuous adaptation

“we are now in the ballpark of trillion tokens probably will be 10 trillion tokens sometime soon”

Box CTO Ben Kus frames AI agent infrastructure as inherently short-lived, requiring constant adaptation — a lesson drawn from managing over an exabyte of data and approaching 10 trillion tokens processed. The talk is enterprise-focused, positioning AI alongside internet, mobile, and cloud as a foundational technology shift. Content cuts off before the actionable infrastructure guidance, limiting signal extraction.

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