Florent Crivello
Founder & CEO, Lindy. On 3 shows, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Florent Crivello is the founder and CEO of Lindy, an autonomous AI agent platform designed to execute complex business workflows across workplace applications. Before building Lindy, he worked as a product lead and software engineer at Uber and founded the virtual workplace platform Teamflow.
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18said about them ↓ Everything Florent Crivello said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Crivello: WordPress is a commercial failure despite powering 60% of the web
“WordPress is a commercial failure. They run 60% of the internet, and they're, like, a fraction of the size of even Substack, right?”
Crivello: Tech workers outside SF lack judgment or ambition
“I think at this point, if you are in tech, especially in AI, but if you're in tech and you're not in San Francisco, you either lack judgment or you lack ambition. It's one of the two.”
Crivello: Lindy AI agents perform better than humans for most use cases
“I think the bar is it needs to be better than a human. And for most use cases we serve today, it is better than the human, especially if you put it on rails.”
Crivello: OpenAI's GPT-4o Is Overhyped and Poor for Agents
“I think four O is overhyped. Frankly, we don't use four O. I don't think it's good for agentic behavior.”
Crivello: Every major remote success story lost to an in-person competitor
“In every one of these examples, you have a co-located counterfactual that is sometimes orders of magnitude bigger.”
Crivello: Remote work optimizes for cost; building creative software requires in-person collaboration
“If you're optimizing for cost, absolutely be remote. If you're optimizing for creativity, which I think that software and product building is a creative endeavor, if you're optimizing for creativity, it's kind of like composing an album. You can't do it on the…”
Crivello: Putting AI Agents on Rails Maximizes Reliability and Usability
“The more you can put your agent on rails, one, the more reliable it's going to be, obviously, but two, it's also going to be easier to use for the user, because you can really, as a user, you get, instead of just getting this, like, big, giant, intimidating te…”
Crivello: A Few Very Big Horizontal AI Agent Platforms Will Dominate
“I think AI is going to completely penetrate every category of software, but then I also think there are going to be a few very, very, very big horizontal agents that serve a lot of functions for people.”
Crivello: AI Agent Software Will Create Trillions Replacing Human Labor
“It's going to sound like an exaggeration, but it is a fact that it's going to create trillions of dollars of value in a few years, right? It's going to, for the first time, we're actually having software directly replace human labor.”
Crivello: The Bitter Lesson applies to agent cognitive architectures
“I think people fail to truly, and me included, they fail to truly internalize the bitter lesson. So for the listeners out there who don't know about it, it's basically like you just scale the model, like GPUs go brrr, it's all that matters. I think it also hol…”
Crivello: Infinite and cheap context windows will arrive within 18 months
“Now we just assume that infinite context windows are going to be here in a year or something, a year and a half and infinitely cheap as well. And dynamic compute is going to be here. Like we just assume all of these things are going to happen.”
Crivello: Marc Andreessen Blocked Him on Twitter Over AI Safety Views
“Like at some point, Marc Andreessen blocked me on Twitter and I, it hurt, frankly, I really look up to Marc Andreessen and I knew he would block me.”
Crivello: 60% to 70% of user agent prompts are meaningless
“Some, I would say, 60 or 70% of the prompts that people type don't mean anything. Me, as a human, as AGI, I don't understand what they mean. I don't know what they mean.”
Crivello: A GUI is always better than pure text for agent workflows
“It is actually, I think, whenever you can have a GUI, it is better than to have just a pure text interface.”
Crivello: Tech industry will not fix OAuth for AI agents before AGI
“I'm not optimistic On us actually patching OAuth, because I agree with you ultimately, like we would want to patch OAuth, because the new account thing is kind of a cludge. It's really a hack. You would want to patch OAuth to have more granular access control …”
Crivello: Selling AI EAs to CEOs Fails Because CEOs Won't Tinker
“The problem with EA is, like, the CEO has no willingness to actually tinker and play with the platform.”
Crivello: Do not build custom eval tools; use existing solutions instead
“I wouldn't recommend it to build your own eval tool. There's better solutions out there, and our eval tool breaks all the time, and it's a nightmare to maintain, and that's not something we want to be spending our time on.”
Crivello: Tasks capable of using APIs must stay API-driven over computer use
“My philosophy about it is anything that can be done with an API must be done by an API or should be done by an API for a very long time.”
Crivello: Top-down legibility inherently degrades bottom-up system performance
“Anytime you make a system more understandable from the top down, it performs less well from the bottom up. And it's fine if that's what you want, but you should at least make this trade off with your eyes wide open. You should know I am sacrificing performance…”
Crivello: Linear executes on a known category rather than novel software
“Linear. I look up to a huge amount, like such amazing product builders, but they know what they're building. They're building a task tracker.”
Crivello: San Francisco's tech network effects cannot be broken
“Once there is a network effects that are just so incredibly powerful, they can't be broken, really. And we tried with San Francisco, I tried with San Francisco, like during COVID, there was a movement of people moving to Miami.
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Crivello: AI has 10% p(doom) and 90% chance of disease-free utopia
“My PDOOM, insofar as I can quantify it, which I cannot, But if I had to, like, my vibe is like, 10% or something like that? And so there's also like a 90% chance that we live in like a pure utopia, right? And that's awesome, right? So like, let's go after the …”
Crivello: AI risks exist at model layer, not application layer
“I know that it's very self-serving to say, oh, you know, like the downside doesn't exist at my layer, it exists at like the model layer. But truly, look at Lindy, look at the Apple building. I struggle to see exactly how it would like get up and start doing cr…”
Florent Crivello: Lindy is to LangChain as Airtable is to MySQL
“We are a no-code platform letting you build your own AI agents easily. So you can think of, we are to Langchain as Airtable to MySQL. Like you can just pin up AI agents super easily by clicking around and no code required. You didn't have to be an engineer and…”
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Crivello: AI Employees Are a Thousand Times Better Than Humans
“I just think it's a thousand times better than a human. And it's just, it's gonna make your business more efficient. It's gonna make you grow faster. It's easier to spin up. You don't have to manage it. It scales infinitely.”
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