Software Tools
topic on 5 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
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Lemkin: Context-rich AI agents act as proactive team members, not tools
“What's changed is the agents have so much context. They're aware of so much that every single day when you log in, especially with you, when you log in with 10 K now our AI VP of revenue, it has new things that wants to build and do. It's not a software tool. …”
Nicolaescu: Top US accounting firms used 3 to 8 tools per workflow
“Before accrual, the best accounting firms in this country and the most innovative ones would have anywhere from three to four tools to six to seven to eight tools. That's kind of the range.”
Steinberger: Software tools will optimize for AI agents like websites for Google
“The way websites had optimizations made for Google search crawlers crawling, I think there will be tool optimizations made for AI, and for those that don't have it, the models will just use it natively”
Isenberg: Software tools will take an increasing share of costs over humans
“So I think that's what's going to happen is these software tools from a percent of your costs are just going to increase versus human beings.”