Florent Crivello

17 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 15, 2024 by Florent Crivello · across every show →

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Nov 15, 2024 positive
Insight
Crivello: Moonshots require greedy search execution rather than rigid planning
“As long as you have some inductive bias about like some loose idea about where you want to go, I think it makes sense to follow a sort of greedy search along that path.”
Florent Crivello Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 43:52 Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
Nov 15, 2024 bearish
Opinion
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.”
Florent Crivello Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 32:07 Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
Nov 15, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Crivello: Lindy Uses Its Own AI Agents for Customer Support
“So we have Lindy obviously doing our customer support and we do check after the Lindy.”
Florent Crivello Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 26:30 Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
Nov 15, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Crivello: Top Lindy Use Cases Are Sales, Support, and Personal Assistance
“There's a lot of like sales automations, customer support automations, and a lot of this, which is basically personal assistance automations, like meeting scheduling and so forth.”
Florent Crivello Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 13:14 Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
Nov 15, 2024 positive
Insight
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.”
Florent Crivello Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 5:52 Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
Nov 15, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Crivello: Lindy Found 3–4 Instances of Agent Rickrolling Customers
“And I checked afterwards in, in the logs, we did like a database query and we found like, I think like three or four other instances of it.”
Florent Crivello Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 27:05 Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
Nov 15, 2024 neutral
Opinion
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.”
Florent Crivello Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 52:04 Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
Nov 15, 2024 neutral
Insight
Crivello: Early AI Agent Builders Overestimated LLM Capabilities
“I think many people, when they started working on agents, they were very LLM-peeled and ChatGPT-peeled, right? They got ahead of themselves in a way, and as included, and they thought that agents were actually and LLMs were actually more advanced than they act…”
Florent Crivello Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 1:55 Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
Nov 15, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Crivello Often Skips Meetings and Queries His Lindy Agent Instead
“Because I know I can have this sort of interactive Q&A with these meetings, it means that very often now I don't go to meetings anymore. I just send my Lindy. And instead of going to like a six-minute meeting, I have like a five-minute chat with my Lindy after…”
Florent Crivello Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 12:44 Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
Nov 15, 2024 positive
Insight
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…”
Florent Crivello Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 2:14 Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
Nov 15, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
Florent Crivello Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 1:01:05 Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
Nov 15, 2024 bearish
Insight
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…”
Florent Crivello Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 34:34 Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
Nov 15, 2024 neutral
Insight
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…”
Florent Crivello Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 45:24 Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
Nov 15, 2024 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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 …”
Florent Crivello Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 1:04:31 Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
Nov 15, 2024 positive
Insight
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.”
Florent Crivello Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 38:16 Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
Nov 15, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
Florent Crivello Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 5:44 Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
Nov 15, 2024
Insight
Crivello: Creative work defines direction, while execution focuses on magnitude
“By creativity, I mean, is it about direction or magnitude? If it is about direction, like decide what to do, then it's a creative endeavor. If it is about magnitude and just do it as fast as possible, as cheap as possible, then it's magnitude.”
Florent Crivello Nov 15, 2024 ▶ 51:46 Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
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