AI Dev 26 x SF | Andi Partovi: Why Every Agent Needs a Simulation Sandbox

AI agents fail in unpredictable ways that traditional testing can't catch — hallucinations, wrong tool calls, policy violations, and more. Teams only discover these failures after users hit them in production. A simulation sandbox gives you a controlled environment with realistic users, tools, and workflows where you can run hundreds of scenarios against your agent before it ships, catching edge cases and adversarial inputs that would be impossible to test manually. This talk by Veris AI's Andi Partovi covers why simulation-driven development is becoming essential infrastructure for any team building production AI agents, and how it closes the gap between "works in demos" and "works at scale."