Cloud Agents
topic on 5 shows · 10 statements across 6 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
Latent Space 
Lenny's Podcast 
Sourcery 
20VC
10 statements about Cloud Agents, every show
Seshan: Cloud agent effectiveness depends on infrastructure alongside intelligence
“A huge part of making these agents useful and achieving some of these futures are on the intelligence side, certainly, but a lot of it is also just really tactical, like data access, like cloud infrastructure and reliability pieces that feel yeah, they feel mu…”
Switching to cloud agents caused Harvey's usage to double quarter-over-quarter
“And then this year, most recently, the main switch we did is just went over to cloud agents. Like we switched our entire infrastructure to that. And once we did that, usage literally just started, like, doubling quarter over quarter.”
Murray: SRE first response is the most common cloud agent use case
“I think the easiest and most common use case I see across everyone is SRE use cases. The idea that whether we have our alerts in Slack or Datadog or wherever they're going, we want the agent to be the first responder on that.”
Nelle: No one had enabled AI coding agents to run code before Cursor
“Like obviously you need to run the code. And so that I think also is probably not that contrarian of a take, but no one has done that yet.”
Nelle: Full computer use shifted internal agent usage to driving new features
“Giving the model the tools to onboard itself and then use Full computer use end to end pixels in coordinates out and have sort of the cloud computer with different apps in it is the big unlock that we've seen internally in terms of usage of this going from, oh…”
Cursor disables Cloud Agents from spawning additional Cloud Agents
“We have disabled its cloud agents starting more cloud agents. So we currently disallow that.”
Nelle: Coding workflows will shift from inspecting diffs to previewing video demos
“That's going to happen again, where it goes from agents handing you back gifts and you're sort of like in the weeds and giving it, you know, 32nd to three minute tasks to you're giving it, you know, three minute to 30 minute to three hour tasks and you're gett…”
Nelle: 10-Person Startups Using Cloud Agents Will Need Enterprise-Scale Dev Pipelines
“As with cloud agents, you scale up this parallelism and how much code you generate, 10 person startups become Need the DevEx and pipelines that a 10,000 person company used to need.”
Emberikos: OpenAI Codex is pivoting back to building cloud-based autonomous agents
“The first is I actually want to get back to cloud. When we pivoted our strategy from, like, building the cloud, like, focusing on the cloud agent last year to working interactively, the thinking was very simple. It was just, and it's kind of like what I was te…”
French-Owen: Every Worker Will Eventually Have Dedicated Cloud AI Agents
“I mean, sort of what I've been thinking, I don't know how far this future is, but like eventually every. Person who's working, like has their own sort of like cloud computer and like set of cloud agents who are running for them.”