AI agent

“The number one thing is just APIs for the AI to use, right? So APIs to take action, APIs to look up data, APIs to you know, reformat things. That is often like, hey, if you have those, you already know that within the first month, it's already gonna be a great…”

“There's the Waymo effect that often happens where It will be objectively just way better than human drivers, and human drivers make a lot of mistakes, but because we're investing in new technology, the bar is a lot higher, so it has to be near perfect. So ther…”

“You know how your agent is structured, you know the places where you need models to run, and you can take, you know, smaller fine-tuned models, and that improves the entire system, both in terms of performance, but also latency, and so on.”

“In the natural end state, it is more unified for the exact reason you listed, which is people want a unified brand out there, and the brand's very important to them, and for some businesses it's more important than others, but eventually this is like, this bec…”

“I actually think, like, maybe one thing, the one way to think about it is that, like, AI use case will start eating the spectrum from both ends. And the reason why is that because engineers are the highest paid, like, they have the sophistication to, like, rea…”

“I worry a little bit about that model sometimes incentivizing the engineering team to not be as efficient as possible with their use of AI, right? Like if you're a company charging for how much time the agent is spending on the task, like, are you not incentiv…”

“So I think what the number one skill that is going to be relevant two years from now, probably even one year from now, is to become a functional expert that knows how to build AI agents to do that function and orchestrate an army of AI agents to do that functi…”

“Even our product development today is not done by, like, one product manager with two engineers shipping something over three months. It's shipping daily, and there's a fleet of agents that are working across the company on a specific task, so everyone kind of…”

“I think this is the second to last year where a majority of the workforce is going to be human. I think in 20, 27, you're going to see there's going to be more agents doing knowledge work than humans, and it's going to be extremely interesting to see what happ…”

“So it turns out that now, all of a sudden, database migration, which used to be, like, the, like, number one thing you would not do in software, is, like, kind of trivial.”

“And increasingly, I think we will have agents do some unit of work, take as many shots on goal as they can, and however many tokens they use to get there is going to be kind of a dependent variable depending on the task. So you think about, like, agents that s…”