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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.”
Crivello: Lindy AI agents perform better than humans for most use cases
“I think the bar is it needs to be better than a human. And for most use cases we serve today, it is better than the human, especially if you put it on rails.”
Crivello: Infinite and cheap context windows will arrive within 18 months
“Now we just assume that infinite context windows are going to be here in a year or something, a year and a half and infinitely cheap as well. And dynamic compute is going to be here. Like we just assume all of these things are going to happen.”
Crivello: Selling AI EAs to CEOs Fails Because CEOs Won't Tinker
“The problem with EA is, like, the CEO has no willingness to actually tinker and play with the platform.”
Crivello: AI risks exist at model layer, not application layer
“I know that it's very self-serving to say, oh, you know, like the downside doesn't exist at my layer, it exists at like the model layer. But truly, look at Lindy, look at the Apple building. I struggle to see exactly how it would like get up and start doing cr…”
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.”
Crivello: AI agents get confused with too many memories
“Agents still get confused if they have too many memories, to my point earlier about that.”
Crivello: AI Agent Community Will Mirror Webflow, Zapier, and Airtable Users
“I think the no-code tinkerers is the community. Yeah. It is going to be the same sort of community as what, yeah, Webflow, Zapier, Airtable, Notion, to some extent.”
Crivello: Separate agents by job to be done and target audience
“I think of it in terms of like jobs to be done, and I think of it in terms of who is the Lindy serving.”
Florent Crivello: Lindy is to LangChain as Airtable is to MySQL
“We are a no-code platform letting you build your own AI agents easily. So you can think of, we are to Langchain as Airtable to MySQL. Like you can just pin up AI agents super easily by clicking around and no code required. You didn't have to be an engineer and…”
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…”
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…”
Crivello: Future businesses will operate like Factorio with thousands of AI agents
“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 someho…”
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.”
Crivello: Users Add Delays to Fake Google Accounts to Disguise AI
“One pattern we've started to see is people provisioning accounts for their AI agents. And so in particular, Google Workspace accounts. So for example, Lindy can be used as a scheduling assistant. And so you can just CC her To your emails when you're trying to …”
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.”
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.”
Crivello: Lindy uses an AI PR reviewer reading 40-page bug guidelines
“We have like a Lindy PR reviewer. And it's really handy because anytime any bug happens, so the Lindy reads our guidelines on Google Docs. By now the guidelines are like 40 pages long or something. And so every time any new kind of bug happens, we just go to t…”
Crivello: Lindy's calendar availability action requires roughly 1,000 lines of code
“So for example, one that is surprisingly hard is this find available times action. You would not believe this is like a thousand lines of code or something. It's just a very beefy action.”
Crivello: Lindy will likely switch to Braintrust for AI evaluations
“We're most likely going to switch to Braintrust.”