Last week, I traveled to San Jose to attend the ACM CAIS conference . On Day 0, I gave a short talk at the Supporting our AI Overlords (SAO) workshop . And yes, I promise to write a summary of our paper, " A Case for Simulation-Driven Resilience in Agent-First Data Systems " soon! To start with an overall impression of the conference: much of the work presented felt exploratory and anecdotal. Since the compound AI space is still so new, many work seemed to share on-the-ground best practices that