Lauritsen: Enterprise engineers will primarily define guardrails for autonomous agents
Jacob Lauritzen · Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups | Legora CTO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Jun 6, 2026 · at 9:47
Jacob Lauritsen is CTO of Legora, a B2B enterprise AI startup. He discusses how enterprise engineering workflows are changing with AI agents building internal software.
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“And I think that type of guardrail setting will see everywhere. And so, if you're a big enterprise, and you're rolling out AI tooling, and you have agents that build your own internal software, you know, you have AI tools that build your HRAS system, and your, You know, ATS system, and whatever else, you probably have some engineers that are just setting up the, like, this is where you get the data, this is what you can do, this is what you can't do, and then you can just let agents run amok inside of that system, basically.”
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