autonomous agents
15 statements across 4 episodes · 9 bullish · 6 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 25, 2023 by Marc Benioff · across every show →
Everything said about autonomous agents, oldest first
Sep 25, 2023 bullish
Feb 28, 2026 bullish
Feb 28, 2026 bearish
Jerry Murdock: Autonomous agents will drive shift from Nvidia GPUs to ASICs
“And my guess is this will lead to the rise of open source models more, more proficiently. And that it's going to lead to the rise of ASICS chips, because what's going to happen with ASICS is you're going to put the model on the chip. You know, ASICS is going t…”
Feb 28, 2026 positive
Jerry Murdock: Autonomous AI agents require visual recognition to understand reality
“Language is, is a very subpar Descriptor of the world. It's just limited. So for autonomous agents, we need a new system where we can visually recognize the world to be able to have an objective view of reality for the autonomous agent.”
Feb 28, 2026 negative
Feb 28, 2026 bullish
Feb 28, 2026 positive
Jerry Murdock: Autonomous AI agents will feature dynamic LLM orchestration layers
“I think what's going to happen with the autonomous agents is ultimately they're going to have an orchestration layer where they can have multiple different LLMs, you know, that they can orchestrate on and triage workflows.”
Feb 28, 2026 bearish
Jerry Murdock: AI displacement begins with hiring freezes for junior white-collar roles
“First of all, not to the people with the job. First of all, to the next person in line, the next junior developer you want to hire, the next executive assistant, the next marketing person. So the first thing you see is people stopping or slowing down Hiring of…”
Feb 28, 2026 bullish
Jerry Murdock: Small and medium businesses will adopt autonomous agents before enterprises
“I think the first companies that are going to go with this are going to be small, medium businesses, because they're the ones that, wow, one secretary makes a huge difference in their, in, in how they, you know, two, three, four person company, how they handle…”
Feb 28, 2026 bullish
Feb 28, 2026 bullish
Jerry Murdock: Autonomous agents will perform scheduling and marketing better than humans
“There's no question that anyone that inputs data into a computer that does scheduling that, you know, like an executive assistant or people doing marketing, those jobs are probably ultimately going to be better done by autonomous agents, white collar jobs.”
Feb 28, 2026 bullish
Jerry Murdock: AI startups are using autonomous agents to write code
“So if I look at real true AI startups like E to B or eventual or Lotus AI get dynasty. These are all native AI companies that are up and running Ovens, another great one. What's happening with them is they're all using open claw, nano claw, or one of their own…”
Feb 28, 2026 bearish
Jerry Murdock: Legacy SaaS vendors face severe disruption within 18 months
“But if you're not making your software for autonomous agents today, you're going to be challenged in the future. Maybe it's six months, maybe a year, maybe 18 months, but you're going to be severely challenged if you still think human beings are going to buy y…”
Aug 22, 2026 bearish
Murdock: Autonomous agent co-work is starting to threaten legacy SaaS companies
“And as co-work becomes, you know, more successful and more stable and more broadly used, I would be really concerned about SaaS companies that don't have some kind of system of record or some kind of AI strategy in place to succeed. Because the co-work era, it…”
Sep 10, 2026 negative
Lemkin: Autonomous AI agents hit a 'Dunbar number' where rules inevitably conflict
“If you have too many rules, they always conflict. It's almost unsolvable. There's some number, I don't know, there's some number of Dunbar, there's a Dunbar number for rules where you get out to 40, 50, 60, 70 gates on a process. Poor instinct and GrokBot can'…”