agent
also referred to as: agents
13 statements across 12 episodes · 9 bullish · 4 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement May 22, 2024 by Aaron Levie · across every show →
Everything said about agent, oldest first
May 22, 2024 bullish
Aaron Levie: LLMs serve as the common reasoning engine across agent architectures
“If you go and ask like 10 AI startups that are doing anything with agents, you'll probably get, you know, more or less 10 different architectures of kind of how the agent actually functions. But what is at least similar to all of them is the LLM or the model i…”
Dec 11, 2024 bullish
Wang: Consumer AI agent adoption will start with toy-like applications
“I mean, I think ultimately, I think agents are gonna start In an area that they'll feel pretty it'll feel like a toy, just like with any technology. So maybe you know, we'll all start with like a language learning agent, or we'll start with a cooking aid agent…”
Jan 23, 2025 bullish
Demis Hassabis predicts AI agents will negotiate directly with service providers
“I think that we're going to end up with probably a kind of, Economics model where agents talk to other agents and negotiate things between themselves and then give you back the results, right? And you will have the service providers with agents as well that ar…”
Jul 23, 2025 bearish
Salesforce research shows AI agents fail most multi-step processes
“The reason that we keep hearing about agents, but never about what agents can do, is because the most common feature of agents is that they fail. There was a Salesforce paper that came out fairly recently that said, I think that they just categorically break d…”
Oct 8, 2025 bullish
Dec 9, 2025 bullish
Alam: Every engineer will need to become a manager for AI agents
“I think every engineer would need to learn the skills of being an engineering manager because you'll have a set of agents, if not humans working with you to be able to sort of deal with code that from a size and a scale perspective is exponential compared to w…”
Dec 9, 2025 bearish
Alam: Enterprise adoption of autonomous AI agents will take a full decade
“That end state of everything is going to be run by agents, billions of agents. I mean, I think it's just, it's an unrealistic, hyped up end state right now that we're not ready to get to, and I think there's a lot of other people that are now saying the same t…”
Jan 16, 2026 bullish
Mensch: Combining static orchestration and dynamic agents will remain essential
“So the combination of these static systems, which you can call orchestration if you want, And the dynamic systems that you can call agents is going to stay super important because the two things are moving up together so that we can tackle problems that are mo…”
Feb 6, 2026 positive
Feb 23, 2026 bullish
Apr 13, 2026 bullish
Saint-Marc: Superintelligence will emerge from multi-agent scaling, not single models
“We had this strong thesis and vision that the intelligence will come not just from building ever smarter and ever bigger and more powerful single agents But more through what we call horizontal scaling. So we distributed systems, a lot of agents coming togethe…”
Jun 22, 2026 negative
Roy: Jamming raw data into large context windows fails at agentic scale
“Six to 12 months ago, the approach was just jam as much information into whatever system you can. And we were kind of promised that it would just work and AI is just gonna, and like, there's, you know, you'd get this feeling that, oh wait, a hundred page PDF. …”
Sep 2, 2026 bearish
Prince: AI Purchasing Agents Will Systematically Favor Incumbent Mega-Corporations
“The agents have infinite time to research every possible detail. And so they're going to look for where the richest sources of information that are online, which are going to be for the established big companies that are out there.”