Terra Agentika · Montreal CTO Meetup · May 8, 2026
The Agent Is The Last Step
How an agent shipped 17 production fixes in 20 days. While I slept.
Chip · Founder, IdeaPlaces
Before we start
Three quick questions.
Who still writes code?
Who uses AI to write it?
Who has shipped AI-written code to production this week?
Where this comes from
Five plus companies. A dozen products.
Building together. Some big, some enterprise.
Twelve months. More production software in customer hands than my entire career.
Two ideas
Attention. Intention.
Attention. When I look away, the agent continues my train of thought.
Intention. What I want to learn pulls toward me. Filtered. Tailored.
Teach the AI in your direction.
The open
It is 1:37 AM.
Production is broken.
You wake up at seven.
A pull request is waiting. Root cause named. Tests added.
You read it over coffee. Merge at 7:15.
You did not wake up for it.
The thesis
The pipeline is the product.
The agent is the last step.
The flip
Move your dev machine to the cloud.
Your laptopSSH client
→
Cloud VMyour project · your tools · your credentials · always on
Your machine. Just always on.
Architecture
From production error to PR. Five minutes.
Container AppsRails, Next.js, jobs
→
Log Analyticsone shared workspace
→
Azure Function5-min timer · GPT-4.1
→
Slack#alerts-backend-prod
→
C3 Agentyour machine
→
Pull Requeston GitHub
All in Terraform. Under five dollars a month per environment.
The principle
Agent proposes. Human disposes.
Agent investigates. Writes the PR. Stops. You review. Merge. Ship.
Saves investigation time. Not judgment time.
The punchline
The agent is the last step. You build the first nine.
github.com/Ideaplaces/c3 · c3.ideaplaces.com