Agentic Workflows
topic on 7 shows · 13 statements across 10 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast
Latent Space
Lenny's Podcast
No Priors
the Official SaaStr Podcast
the MAD Podcast
20VC
13 statements about Agentic Workflows, every show
Reyes: Gateway routing saves 10-20%, but agentic workflows require stateful routing
“What's interesting is that we've seen that you can definitely get some nice cost savings doing this, like, 10, 20% from these types of products but you really
Need something fundamentally different when you have agentic workflows, because to actually take the …”
Park: Stanford simulation first explicitly architected agent memory, planning, reflection
“And then was paired with memory planning and reflection. Really the first times that those concepts Came out to be an explicit part of the architecture in, quote unquote, agentic workflows.”
Bourgeau: Agentic workflows will accelerate AI research tasks in the next year
“The first part, I think, especially in the next year with more agentic workflows being enabled more and more, that should be able to really accelerate our work there.”
Foster: Scaled automation mixes deterministic and agentic AI workflows
“So what are the folks that are actually deploying like automation at scale doing? They're finding ways to mix and match deterministic workflows with agentic workflows and do those together.”
Foster: Highly agentic workflows are highly imperfect and require human intervention
“I think a reason a lot of folks are taking this approach of inserting the human at the last mile is the more agentic these workflows, the more imperfect it is.”
Ng: Human engineers needed for agentic workflows for 1-2 more years
“Until and unless we built, you know, AI avatars that can interview employees doing the work, and better visual AI that can look at the computer monitor, I think, maybe eventually, you know, but I think at least right now, for the next year or two, I think ther…”
Ng: Data needed for agentic workflows is proprietary, not on internet
“I feel like for a lot of work to be done building agentic workflows, that data set is proprietary. It's just not, it's not general knowledge on the internet.”
Ng: Agentic workflows determine whether AI applications work or fail
“So for a lot of the projects that AI fund has worked on, everything from pulling out complex compliance documents, to medical diagnosis, to reasoning about complex legal documents, we found that these agentic workflows are really a huge difference between work…”
Ng: Tech will spend a decade mapping work to agentic workflows
“And for the next decade, we'll be looking at the work that needs to be done and figuring out how to map it to agentic workflows.”
Wu: Agentic workflows will unlock 200% to 1,000% software engineering gains
“I think we're going to shift more and more towards this agentic workflow because, you know, that's in some ways it's kind of like that the way to really get to that, you know, 200%, 500%, a thousand percent gains that, that, that, that we'll be getting to with…”
Kozlov: Non-Kubernetes architectures are critical for cost-effective AI agent scaling
“It's easy to conflate long running with CPU intensive, and these are kind of not the same thing, and actually a lot of Specifically agentic workflows. A lot of what you're doing is you're waiting. You're waiting on human in the loop. You're waiting on LLM. You…”
Weinberg: AI platforms must expand modular workflows and collapse UI complexity
“These models can't just one shot all of these really complex legal tasks or in these other domains like tax and provide other professional services. And so what you have to do is you have to build a platform that is kind of constantly expanding and constantly …”
Next generative AI leap requires integrating action-taking agentic workflows
“The next generation of and the next step forward and what we can get out of AI systems is going to depend a lot on, How well we can integrate agentic workflows and actually get these AI systems to do things, not just kind of summarize and tell us information.”