Dashboards Are Dead — Sarah Simionescu, Composio

Sarah used Datadog every day for six months without ever opening the dashboard. Sarah Simionescu, member of technical staff at Composio and on the team behind the Composio dashboard, makes the case that the dashboard is dead. She traces how we got here: five tools and five query languages, then the AI 'sparkle button', then MCP. She explains why MCP alone is still a mess (agents don't learn, too many tools drown the model, every app is isolated) and shows how an interface designed for agents fixes it. Live demos go from a Slack bug report to a fix PR, and run a cross-app analysis across PostHog and Metabase without loading full results into context. In this talk: • Why every dashboard and query language was a translation layer • Three reasons wiring up a dozen MCP servers falls apart • How tool search plus execution plans help agents work across apps • Building products for a new kind of user: agents SPEAKER Sarah Simionescu, Member of Technical Staff, Composio LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-simionescu/ GitHub: https://github.com/sarahsimionescu Website: https://www.sarahsimionescu.com/ LINKS Composio: https://composio.dev/ Composio MCP: https://composio.dev/mcp-gateway CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:12 A confession about dashboards 1:02 The dashboard is dead 1:17 A postmortem 1:27 2022: five tools, five query languages 2:17 You wanted the answer, not the dashboard 2:37 2023: the sparkle button 3:02 2024: MCP arrives 3:31 Why MCP alone is a mess 3:51 Agents don't learn 4:06 Too many tools drown the model 4:31 Every app is isolated 4:56 Demo: from Slack bug report to fix PR 6:25 Results vs native MCP servers 6:45 An interface designed for agents 7:20 Demo: cross-app analysis 8:59 What this means for every product 9:44 A new kind of user 10:14 Wrap-up Recorded at the AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 in San Francisco. Subscribe for more talks from the engineers building with AI. AI Engineer: https://ai.engineer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@aiDotEngineer X: https://x.com/aiDotEngineer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aidotengineer/ #AIAgents #MCP #AIEngineer