Interview #94 Kamal Hathi, SVP and GM, Splunk at Cisco
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Interview #94 Kamal Hathi, SVP and GM, Splunk at Cisco

Kamal Hathi, SVP and GM of Splunk at Cisco, breaks down why intent is never enough to control an AI agent: agents are ruthless goal seekers, and asking one to free up 3 percent of disk space can end with 97 percent free because nobody said keep the rest. He explains why trust means verification rather than instruction, and why it includes the invoice, comparing it to hiring a contractor you trust to build a house that stands without emptying your bank account. Kamal also digs into why the rush toward air gapped and local AI is driven less by distrust of frontier labs than by cost, with specialized small models running 97 percent cheaper and 95 percent faster than frontier calls, and why the real threat is the unknown unknowns, agents nobody cataloged acting inside a state of perpetual breach. Finally, he argues agents are the new apps, and every job starts to look like a software developer's: tell the agent what to do, inspect the work, and iterate.


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