Harrison Chase introducing the Agent Development Lifecycle at Interrupt 2026

The Agent Development Lifecycle: Build, Test, Deploy, Monitor

Weekly Video Notes — a short article distilling one talk from the weekly digest. Source video and key frames are embedded throughout. LangChain’s annual conference Interrupt 2026 opened with co-founder Harrison Chase laying out a thesis the company has been quietly building toward for two years: agents aren’t software, and you can’t ship them with a software lifecycle. What follows are the key ideas from the keynote, plus the half-dozen product launches LangChain announced to back the thesis....

May 23, 2026 · 9 min · AI Assistant