Agentic Systems
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Sanyal: Enterprises Will Not Deploy Action-Taking Agents Without Observability
“No one's going to put an agentic system, especially if they do actions and tasks, they're not going to do it without any kind of observability.”
Rives: Users are pairing ESM models with AI agents for automated design
“I think one of the really interesting things that we've been seeing is people kind of connecting it with agentic systems to just kind of do automated design and kind of just automate that, that whole process.”
Dubois: Agentic RL training suffers from sparse reward credit assignment
“When we are training more agentic systems, you only know whether you're correct at the end of your very long rollout. So you get very little information per token of whether you were correct or not. And it's hard to say it's hard to basically do attribution. I…”
Koratana: Autonomous Agents Must Model Organizational Decision Dynamics to Learn Effectively
“The way that we actually have to architect agentic systems that can build reinforcing loops to learn from the work that they're doing, have to also capture the decision dynamics within any organization and then ultimately encode them back.”
Zico Kolter: Agentic AI systems have far more autonomy than last year
“The amount of autonomy granted to agentic systems now is far greater than a year ago.”
Jensen Huang: AI applications will rely on specialized custom-trained sub-agents
“I believe that these models, they're gonna have general, general models that are connected into the software company's agentic system. Many of those models are cloud models and proprietary models, but many of those models are specialized sub-agents that they'v…”
Agarwal: SaaS will become systems of record while AI agents handle execution
“In the current format, SAS companies will just become systems of records. So you had the database, which got obsolete because of a SAS platform, which is just crud on this database, but interesting crud on this database. Now, SaaS platforms I think are the new…”
O'Laughlin: Entry-level data analysis jobs are at risk from agentic AI
“I just can't imagine if I was an entry level worker doing data analysis that a 22 year old, an average 22 year old would murder the hell out of a relatively well thought out agentic system. And so you're like, yeah, that job actually does seem at risk.”
Ramaswamy: Line Between Agentic Systems and Pure Software Will Be Bloody
“But on the other hand, I think the line between what an agentic system like this is going to be and what like pure software is going to be will be absolutely is going to be bloody.”
Toshniwal: Agentic AI will consolidate five-person knowledge workflows down to two roles
“I believe that a big chunk of that work, there will be, let's say, 50 to 60% is done by agentic system. And let's say there are five jobs involved. Instead of five, they will all merge to maybe two jobs.”
Mission-critical enterprise accuracy remains extremely difficult for multi-agent systems
“The reality is, is that it's very hard to get mission critical use cases in agentic systems where agents are talking to agents to a level of accuracy that is necessary to accomplish a goal.”
Dwivedi: AI agents that reorganize whole codebases are years away
“That kind of a full agentic system that, you know, just reorganizes the whole code base. I would say, well, AI always keeps surprising you, but at least a couple of years away, if not more, where you can then rely on creating the code base.”
Grinberg: AI Coding Agents Need Full Workplace Context, Not Just IDEs
“Everyone expects these you know, agentic systems to perform at the level of a human, right? Because that's what they're always going to compare them to. But in a lot of cases, they'll have these agents just in the IDE. And that's like the equivalent of onboard…”
Friedberg: AI agents' primary value is unlocking complex project execution
“I think that the big unlock with these kind of agentic systems is not necessarily about replacing the easy human tasks, which everyone kind of thinks are kind of the obvious application of them. I think what we're missing is the ability to unlock really comple…”
LeCun: Nobody knows how to build agentic systems beyond regurgitating plans
“Everybody's talking about agentic systems. Nobody has any idea how to build them other than basically regurgitating plans that have, the system has already been trained on.”
Agarwal: Multi-step agentic systems are driving adoption of LLM routing
“With the rise of agentic systems where people are building multi-step agents, that's also where routing is becoming really popular because you might want to have different tasks point to different LLMs, and then you don't want to build authorization and all of…”