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Bret Taylor Says AI Agents Are Currently in Their jQuery Era
“To go use that metaphor, we're sort of in the jQuery era of agents, not the React era”
Howard: Building web apps is much worse now than 15 years ago
“Much to my, you know, horror, the story around creating web applications is much worse now than it was 10 or 15 years ago, in terms of, like, if I say to a data scientist, here's how to create and deploy a web application, You know, either you have to learn Ja…”
Liu: AI agents should use explicit DAG workflows over ReAct loops
“Instead of doing like a react type reasoning loop, I think my belief is that we should be using like workflows, right? If we do this, then we always have a request and a complete workflow. We can fine tune a model that has a better workflow. Whereas it's hard …”
Taylor: Core abstractions for AI agents will emerge over next decade
“And actually, well, I'm sure we'll get into AI, but I sort of feel like we'll go through that evolution with AI agents as well that I feel like we're missing a lot of the core abstractions that I think in 10 years we'll be like, gosh, how'd you make agents bef…”
Yao: Pairing reasoning with tool use is essential for unfamiliar tools
“And I think the second contribution is this idea of what people call like inner monologue or thinking or reasoning or whatever to be paired with tool use. I think that's still not trivial because if you look at the default function calling or whatever, like th…”