Anish Agarwal

Everything Anish Agarwal said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

LATENT SPACE Opinion

Agarwal: No AI incident troubleshooting competitor genuinely works in production

“And I don't think we've seen any other company in our space having something actually work at production.”

Anish Agarwal Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 25:49 ⚡️Traversal: Causal ML and Reinforcement Learning

LATENT SPACE Prediction Not checkable as stated

Agarwal: AI coding assistants will cause uninterpretable outages and endless firefighting

“And so it's pretty clear to us that, you know, and we were starting to use it ourselves and sometimes we didn't understand what the code was doing, but you know, we shipped it. And so it's like, well, if this is clearly, this is going to happen a lot more. And…”

Anish Agarwal Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 7:40 ⚡️Traversal: Causal ML and Reinforcement Learning

LATENT SPACE Insight

Agarwal: Incident troubleshooting requires adaptive search over LLM context dumping

“You cannot just Put all of it into context of an LLM and hope something great happens. You have to search the data sequentially and adaptively, right? And that's what these agentic systems are fundamentally about.”

Anish Agarwal Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 7:07 ⚡️Traversal: Causal ML and Reinforcement Learning

LATENT SPACE Insight

Agarwal: LLMs are really bad at processing time series data

“Because most of the data you're looking at is like time series data. And these LLMs are really bad at processing time series data, right? And that's really where like good statistics comes in.”

Anish Agarwal Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 17:58 ⚡️Traversal: Causal ML and Reinforcement Learning

LATENT SPACE Insight

Agarwal: Observability incumbents lack incentive to analyze competitor telemetry data

“The typically the way they work is, is they price based on the amount of data they're storing, right? And so, you know, they have very little incentive for company A To provide you any insight on data being stored on, on company, observability company B, right…”

Anish Agarwal Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 23:15 ⚡️Traversal: Causal ML and Reinforcement Learning

LATENT SPACE Insight

Agarwal: Rigorous eval suites are core IP for leading AI startups

“The best AI companies will always have to be the edge of what the models can do, right? I think you always want to be threading the line. If everything works all the time, then you're not really pushing the limit and you're not innovating, right? So I think yo…”

Anish Agarwal Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 35:31 ⚡️Traversal: Causal ML and Reinforcement Learning

LATENT SPACE Disclosure

Agarwal: Sequoia met 20 AI SRE startups before backing Traversal

“Our first VC backer was Sequoia, and I think they had met, I think, like, I think like 20 VC, 20, ah, companies before this, but unbeknownst to us, and that was the first question, like Bogomol, who's a board member from there asked, like, I've heard this pitc…”

Anish Agarwal Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 8:34 ⚡️Traversal: Causal ML and Reinforcement Learning

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Anish's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
LATENT SPACELEDGER	Co-Founder, Traversal	1	7	—	full record on Latent Space →