Crivello: Future businesses will operate like Factorio with thousands of AI agents
Florent Crivello · Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!) · Nov 15, 2024 · at 41:59
Florent Crivello, founder and CEO of Lindy.ai, envisions how executive leadership will evolve into orchestrating massive fleets of autonomous AI agents.
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“We actually very often talk about how the business of the future is like a game of factorial. It's like you just wake up in the morning and you've got your Lindy instance. It's like Slack and you've got like 5000 Lindys in the sidebar and your job is to somehow manage your 5000 Lindys. And it's going to be very similar to company building because you're going to look for like the highest leverage way to understand what's going on in your AI company and understand what levels do you have to make impact in that company. So I think it's going to be very similar to like a human company, except it's going to go infinitely faster.”
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