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session_id: "1379011"
title: "Let the Agent Cook: From APIs to Answers"
phase: live
last_checked: 2026-11-12T13:24:21-08:00
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# Links: Let the Agent Cook: From APIs to Answers

## Speaker

**Arsalan Bashir**, Staff Software Engineer, AI, Sentry

No profile could be confirmed.

## Company

**[Sentry](https://sentry.io/)**: "Application performance monitoring for
developers & software teams to see errors clearer, solve issues faster." (from
the site)

## Resources

- **Blog** · [Introducing Seer Agent](https://blog.sentry.io/introducing-seer-agent/)
  (Sentry, 2026-04-28). Sentry's investigative agent over its own traces, logs
  and source: the kind of agent the talk's lessons come from.
- **Product** · [Seer](https://docs.sentry.io/product/ai-in-sentry/seer/) (Sentry
  docs). Sentry's AI debugging agent.
- **Blog** · [Writing effective tools for AI agents](https://www.anthropic.com/research/writing-tools-for-agents)
  (Anthropic, 2025-09-11). The guidance lesson one credits: consolidate
  overlapping tools and push pagination, ID matching and retries into the tool.
- **Blog** · [Introducing advanced tool use for Claude](https://www.anthropic.com/research/advanced-tool-use)
  (Anthropic, 2025-11-24). Programmatic Tool Calling, where the model writes code
  that calls the tools, which Sentry uses instead of hand-written tools.
- **Blog** · [We removed 80% of our agent's tools](https://vercel.com/blog/we-removed-80-percent-of-our-agents-tools)
  (Vercel). The outside example lesson two cites (transcribed "Werzel").

## Gaps

- No LinkedIn, X or GitHub profile verifiably his (the roster lists none).
- His previous data-agent company (transcribed "Lightbox") was not identified.
- No Sentry post on the data agent's 4x speed and 30% token results was found.
- The context-window reset-and-handoff anecdote has no source found.
- The Q&A answer on Sentry's two-tool setup is cut off at the recording's end.
- No official recording or slides found yet. The dossier rechecks every 6 hours
  during the event.