agent
also referred to as: agents
14 statements across 12 episodes · 9 bullish · 2 bearish · 12 people on the record · first statement May 4, 2025 by Scott Wu · across every show →
Everything said about agent, oldest first
May 4, 2025 bullish
Jul 17, 2025 neutral
Shipper: AGI is reached when running continuous agents is economically profitable
“And so I think a good definition of AGI is when does it become economically profitable for people to run agents indefinitely? So it just never turns off. It's a cloud code. That's always running. It's always doing something. You just never turn it off and you …”
Aug 28, 2025 bullish
Sharma: The Future of Software Products Is Composability, Not UI Canvas
“The future of products being about composability and not the canvas. And I think that product makers really need to rewire their mindset around this because I think we spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the UI of something rather than how someth…”
Aug 28, 2025 bullish
Sharma: Reinforcement learning will become a critical product technique
“With the advent of agents and products that think and can act and reason, there's going to be this kind of new wave around RL, and I have a deep belief that that, that will become one of the most important product techniques, kind of the next season, or at lea…”
Oct 19, 2025 positive
Forsgren: AI shifts developer flow from syntax to high-level orchestration
“It helps them keep in the flow in terms of, instead of details and line by line writing, they're in the flow in terms of what's my goal. What are the pieces that I need to get there? How quickly can I get there? So then I can step back and kind of evaluate eve…”
Nov 30, 2025 bullish
Grosser: AI agents could double salespeople's customer-facing time to 70%
“And I think we're getting to a point where With layering in agents, ideally, we finally get salespeople to a point where they're actually spending 70% of their time interacting with humans, and we can get the research, the follow-up, the things that are a litt…”
Dec 21, 2025 negative
Jan 11, 2026 negative
Reganti: Terms Like Evals and Agents Suffer From Semantic Diffusion
“I think Martin Fowler at some point had this term called semantic diffusion back in The 2000 which kind of means that someone comes up with a term, everybody starts butchering it with their own definitions, and then you kind of lose the actual definition of it…”
Feb 19, 2026
Mar 29, 2026 bullish
Apr 2, 2026 positive
Willison: AI agents have become credible security researchers in recent months
“At the same time, the agents are getting really good at security penetration testing now. And this is a new thing. I think in the past, again, in the past sort of three to six months, they've started being credible as security researchers, which is sending sho…”
Apr 2, 2026 neutral
Willison: Code is easier for AI agents because it is verifiably right or wrong
“Like code is easier than almost every other problem that you pose these agents because code is obviously right or wrong. Like it produces code. You run the code. Either it works or it doesn't work. There might be a few subtle hidden hidden bugs, but generally …”
Apr 26, 2026 bullish
Jun 28, 2026 positive
Ambrosino: Every IC is now also a manager of AI agents
“It's not that management is going away. It's not that everyone's an IC, but like everyone's kind of both now, right? If you're an IC, you're not typing code out character by character, right? Like you are managing something. You're managing agents. You're mana…”