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title: "Why (Senior) Engineers Struggle to Build AI Agents — Philipp Schmid, Google DeepMind"
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# Why (Senior) Engineers Struggle to Build AI Agents — Philipp Schmid, Google DeepMind

## What It Is
A public YouTube video used as supporting context for the AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 wiki. It is not part of the confirmed World's Fair San Francisco 2026 official event-video set.

## Source Classification
- Source role: supporting contextual video source.
- Channel/source: public YouTube or AI Engineer channel video outside the confirmed World's Fair San Francisco 2026 event-video set.
- Use: background, speaker, company, or historical AIE context; not primary evidence for World's Fair San Francisco 2026 session facts.

## Transcript Availability
English auto-captions

## Cached Transcript
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## Link
[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_gYbhABcAE)

## Related Scheduled Sessions
- [[2026-06-30-philipp-schmid-why-agents-should-have-their-own-sandbox]] — Why Agents Should Have Their Own Sandbox
- [[2026-06-30-philipp-schmid-don-t-ship-skills-without-evals]] — Don't Ship Skills Without Evals
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