Software Agents
topic on 5 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
Latent Space 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 
Catalyst 
the a16z Podcast
6 statements about Software Agents, every show
Masad: Only software agents work; sales and marketing agents do not
“The only agents that work are software agents, marketing agents, sales agents, all that haven't really worked very well.”
Dean: Software development will shift to managing independent AI agent teams
“And so I do think there's going to be more of a style of having lots of independent software agents off doing things on your behalf and figuring out the right sort of human computer interaction model and UI and so on for, When should it interrupt you and say, …”
Software agents, rather than human queries, will drive most AI inference workloads
“I think increasingly most of the inference workload will come from other software agents.”
Masad: Next-gen coding AI will train via AlphaZero-style RL, not human code
“My bet is that Pretty soon we're going to move into more of the alpha zero style of training where you have a more traditional LM that's trained on all of the internet. But then the way to train the next generation of it would be to give it a reinforcement lea…”
Rampell: AI agents are taking over 65 years of human white-collar tasks
“Now you have software agents that are effectively doing what for 65 years have been human work.”