Simon Last

8 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 15, 2026 by Simon Last · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Apr 15, 2026 neutral
Insight
Simon Last: 99% of Agent Failures Are Tool Bugs, Not Model Flaws
“And actually, 99% of the time, it's a bug in one of the tools. Right. And so, just fix the bug.”
Simon Last Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 1:15:20 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Apr 15, 2026 positive
Insight
MCP Provides a Safer Permission Model Than CLIs by Preventing Token Exfiltration
“MCP inherently has a really strong permission model. Like, all you can do is call the tools. A CLI is a little bit murkier. It's like, can I access the API token? Are you, like, properly sort of, like, re-encrypting the token so it can't, like, exfiltrate it? …”
Simon Last Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 43:20 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Apr 15, 2026 neutral
Opinion
AI Evaluation Harnesses Should Remain Compatible With General CLI Tools
“Yeah, I think it'll be a mistake to like fix it on any particular coding agent. At the end of the day, it's just like CLI tools.”
Simon Last Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 29:43 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Apr 15, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Simon Last Runs Autonomous Coding Agents Overnight Before Going to Sleep
“So now every night before I go to bed, I'm like, okay, did I start enough agents to get them done? I get everything done.”
Simon Last Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 1:12:47 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Apr 15, 2026 positive
Insight
CLI Environments Let AI Agents Autonomously Debug and Fix Broken Tools
“And then I think the most important thing that's super cool is that there it's also inherently a bootstrapped. So if there's an issue of the agent can debug and fix itself within the same environment that it uses the tool, right?”
Simon Last Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 41:45 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Apr 15, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Notion's Meeting Notes Automatically Mention Individuals Referenced in Generated Summaries
“One thing that the meeting notes team added recently that was But I've been blowing my mind is they, we have, they made it so it actually, when it makes the summary will actually mention the people that were referenced in it. So I now get notifications wheneve…”
Simon Last Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 1:21:00 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Apr 15, 2026 positive
Insight
Agent Environments Must Favor Model Preferences Over Internal System Architecture
“I mean, that was, I would say that was a big learning is just, you know, really be savvy and really careful thinking about what the model wants in terms of, you know, its environment and cater around that and really try so hard not to expose it to any complexi…”
Simon Last Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 51:22 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Apr 15, 2026 positive
Insight
Supervising AI Agents Is a Deeply Technical Systems Problem, Unlike Managing Humans
“There's a critical difference To being a manager, which is that like, it is actually very deeply technical. The problem of, you know, humans are very like fuzzy and you can't like treat a team of humans like a rigorous system where like, you know, PRs like fle…”
Simon Last Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 31:41 Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
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