AI agent

“So this is going to happen for these agents. It's unrealistic to expect that it won't.”

“I really do believe that at some point, the whole concept of publishers and publishing maybe goes away. Where, you know, much like we saw so much of the content on the internet today being user generated, you know, most of the content is made by individuals po…”

“I think that humans have judgment. And I think it's going to take decades for agents to replace good judgment.”

“I was flying home with somebody on Saturday. I won't say who it is, but they are right at the bleeding edge of a lot of this AI stuff. And they let go a third of their company, replaced it with an agent within six weeks of training it.”

“I think you find that there'll be millions of companies with one person and then a whole layer of software and conductors and agents and bots. That's the future. So you won't have these engineering people. That person should be running their own company. And s…”

“Being a conductor, Friedberg or a maestro, a conductor of an orchestra, I think that's the job of the future is can you work with these agents?”

“And so what I think you're going to see is, is, is networks of models and like kind of traffic control and escalation and all the rest. And agents are not going to be one model. They're going to be blends of models.”

“This is the greatest opportunity in the history of enterprise software, and it must be executed with absolute acuity and excellence, and that is what I think we all need to do.”

“So you could have two AIs pretend to be humans talking to each other and resolving tasks on your behalf. And I literally, I think that's where it's headed.”

“I think we'll ultimately look back on these sort of chat models as a little bit of a parlor trick compared to what agents are going to do in the workplace.”

“Agents are just going to be a feature, not a product, because inherently in AI, as it advances and gets smarter, then it's going to be able to create its own agents for its users and go forward from there.”

“In the future, none of this UI real estate is actually worth anything. The question is, do you have a data asset that's valuable or do you do a service that's viable? Because agentically, there'll be all of these unemotional bots and workflows doing this work …”

“You're going to see a whole new wave of What are called agents this year agentic products are able to do more for you, but there's no evidence yet that those things are going to be completely unsupervised and replace people's jobs.”

“I think what you're seeing is that if these agents can scale, The OPEX, the actual load of making something will go down by an order of magnitude, and that is, and maybe even two orders of magnitude. That is incredibly disruptive because the existing incumbent…”

“I don't like the word replace because I think actually most of the upside is actually going to be for companies that now deploy labor at things that they wouldn't have deployed labor at before.”

“And I think we'll be a parody Before the end by the end of this year.”

“AI agents, I think, are gonna use stablecoins and wallet, crypto wallets.”

“On average, each employee is going to have about 90 agents they control.”

“These two agents are reasoning and they went right around The guardrails that were put in place.”

“If you're a great manager at Circle, probably one of the best things that you can learn how to do is manage AI. And so, you know, invest in how you manage AI and AI agents. Actually, that's how you might actually become a better manager and leader through that…”

“I would say out of 50 hours a producer does a week, this does 40 of them. And of what an SDR does, this does 95%.”

“I think this is going to be such a big product that it may become the dominant form factor of AI, meaning more popular than the sort of research oriented chatbot.”

“And then the agents can transact a million times more than us. And they're not going to use banks. Banks just won't be able to support.”

“Every startup I know is hiring for this position, which is somebody who knows how to build and manage agents.”

“And right now it feels like the people in my organization have four of them who are focused on this out of 20. I would say that their leverage is between 10 and 20 x the other 16.”

“You can have software that's so vibrant that it can just, Jason, release a stream and there'll be people that have, you know, developed agents and developed these AIs that will just process all of that and they will then Publish out a dashboard, and the whole …”

“The enterprise software industry is limited by butts and seats. It's about to get a hundred times more agents banging on those tools.”

“Until the whole world is organized around CLIs and tools. There's still a lot of tasks we have to do manually on the web, on the browser, open tabs, fill up forms, click on things, upload stuff. All that stuff, if you want to automate, you need a browser. You …”

“Even though I think that you'll just increasingly tell your agent what to do instead of be clicking around or, you know, touching the screen, you still need a dashboard or a user interface to like check on it and just see readouts of information.”

“The longer the time horizon for a task, the more likely it is to Go off the rails.”

“Maybe, maybe you can theorize that there will be agents that will sit at Andreessen Horowitz and whoever else, your funds, but I think the human will always have to be there”

“Yeah, it's slowly becoming that you will be asking for a give me an AI agent effectively on the call.”

“What's really interesting about, especially the agents following the release of Opus. 4.5 and 4.6 is they can now start to do really intelligent case strategy, and they can actually start to combine the witness statements, the cases, and they can really do end…”

“I think in the past, the way that most SaaS Products thought they spent a lot of time on their user interface, and now they really got to think about the agent interface, not just user interface.”

“It turns out that if you have multiple agents, then the agents develop more context and expertise. So they get more specific”

“I mean, look, I think that SaaS products can offer their own agents, and they can offer their own AI and copilots and all that, but I think the reality is, Is that most of the action with agents is going to happen outside those products and simply want to inte…”

“So for the next 10 years, we're going to have security issue after security issue. But there's going to be a moment where agent written exquisite code exceeds human written error filled code.”