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
Insight
Wu: AI product experiences will shift from text completion to autonomous agents
“The product experience was going to shift from, you know, what I'll call, like, text completion To agents, basically.”
Scott Wu May 4, 2025 ▶ 13:07 Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu
Jul 17, 2025 neutral
Insight
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 …”
Dan Shipper Jul 17, 2025 ▶ 17:18 The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
Aug 28, 2025 bullish
Insight
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…”
Asha Sharma Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 17:20 How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma
Aug 28, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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…”
Asha Sharma Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 44:45 How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma
Oct 19, 2025 positive
Insight
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…”
Nicole Forsgren Oct 19, 2025 ▶ 10:19 How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren
Nov 30, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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…”
Jeanne DeWitt Grosser Nov 30, 2025 ▶ 17:53 What world-class GTM looks like in 2026 | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (Vercel, Stripe, Google)
Dec 21, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Schulhoff: Attacking AI agents is easier than eliciting CBRN info
“We've actually just run a bunch of agentic AI red teaming competitions, and we found that it's actually easier to attack agents and trick them into doing bad things than it is to do, like, seaburn elicitation.”
Sander Schulhoff Dec 21, 2025 ▶ 1:02:26 Why securing AI is harder than anyone expected and guardrails are failing | HackAPrompt CEO
Jan 11, 2026 negative
Insight
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…”
Aishwarya Reganti (Ash) Jan 11, 2026 ▶ 39:31 Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google & Amazon
Feb 19, 2026
Disclosure
Cherny continuously runs around five concurrent AI agents in his workflow
“I always have a bunch of agents running. So like at the moment I have like five agents running and at any moment, like, you know, like I wake up and I start a bunch of agents.”
Boris Cherny Feb 19, 2026 ▶ 1:00:12 Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved | Boris Cherny
Mar 29, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2028
Vo: AI agents will become the top users of websites within years
“I think we skip ahead a couple of years and the number one user of websites are going to be people's agents.”
Claire Vo Mar 29, 2026 ▶ 1:04:52 From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo
Apr 2, 2026 positive
Opinion
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…”
Simon Willison Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 19:04 An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & dark factories are coming
Apr 2, 2026 neutral
Insight
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 …”
Simon Willison Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 6:04 An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & dark factories are coming
Apr 26, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Spiegel: AI agents will soon implement bug fixes directly
“Agents now you know, debug exactly what happened, what went wrong and, you know, can actually like suggest a fix. And I think, you know, in pretty short order, it'll be implementing the fix as well, which is pretty crazy.”
Evan Spiegel Apr 26, 2026 ▶ 47:09 How to win when software is not a moat | Evan Spiegel (Snapchat CEO)
Jun 28, 2026 positive
Insight
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…”
Andrew Ambrosino Jun 28, 2026 ▶ 30:43 Why OpenAI is merging Codex and ChatGPT and the future of knowledge work | Andrew Ambrosino
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