agent

also referred to as: agents

13 statements across 12 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 12 people on the record · first statement Dec 12, 2024 by Florian Douetteau · across every show →

Everything said about agent, oldest first

Dec 12, 2024 bullish
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Douetteau: AI agents will combine predictive ML and LLMs for autonomous tasks
“What we will build are agents that are combining those models or those models together in order to do more autonomous tasks end to end.”
Florian Douetteau Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 38:42 Dataiku's Secret to Scaling AI in Global Enterprises | Florian Douetteau, CEO, Dataiku
Mar 6, 2025 positive
Insight
Kiela: Retrieval is the only way AI agents can handle proprietary data
“Really focused on retrieval because that's really the only way you get these agents to work on your data and your problems.”
Douwe Kiela Mar 6, 2025 ▶ 50:02 Top AI Researcher on GPT 4.5, DeepSeek and Agentic RAG | Douwe Kiela, CEO, Contextual AI
Jun 12, 2025 bullish
Insight
Dohmke: Context-aware AI agents with tool calls outperform fine-tuned models
“So this iterative process that the agent does with the help of the tool calls in all the context makes it so much more powerful than a fine-tuned model could ever be.”
Thomas Dohmke Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 29:03 GitHub CEO: The AI Coding Gold Rush, Vibe Coding & Cursor
Jun 26, 2025 positive
Insight
Rauch: Dev tools must be designed for both humans and AI agents
“LLMs.txt or raw markdown is better for agents. So if you're building developers still today, you have to have that duality in your head. You need to think, okay, How do I make my content, my errors, my developer tools great for agents?”
Guillermo Rauch Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 31:58 Guillermo Rauch: Why Software Development Will Never Be the Same
Jun 26, 2025 positive
Insight
Rauch: AI agents, not human users, will directly wield software tools
“So we're entering a world where it used to be that the tools get drawn in front of your face and knew how to wield them. In this new world, the tools are given to the agent and the agent wills them and decides when to use which.”
Guillermo Rauch Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 25:57 Guillermo Rauch: Why Software Development Will Never Be the Same
Aug 7, 2025
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Boris Cherny: Programming will shift from text manipulation to working with agents
“I think one way it will definitely play out is it's going to change programming where programming is no longer direct text manipulation, but it's more working with agents to get the work done.”
Boris Cherny Aug 7, 2025 ▶ 56:57 Anthropic's Surprise Hit: How Claude Code Became an AI Coding Powerhouse
Oct 16, 2025 neutral
Insight
Tworek: Reinforcement learning is the only way agents learn environmental reaction
“And that's kind of, like, the only way how to, like, really teach agents to, like, learn to react to changes in the environment is through reinforcement learning.”
Jerry Tworek Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 39:45 How GPT-5 Thinks — OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek
Nov 6, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Kant: AI models and AI agents are effectively the same thing
“Models and agents to me are effectively the same thing.”
Eiso Kant Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 41:22 Intelligence Isn’t Enough: Why Energy & Compute Decide the AGI Race – Eiso Kant
Feb 12, 2026
Insight
LeCroix: Enterprise value comes from multi-agent workflows, not single agents
“What we see in enterprise is rarely things that are solved with agents because that's not necessarily where you would expect an FDE to be most useful. Where there is more values, value is in more complex workflows where you will have several agents interact th…”
Timothée LeCroix Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 17:57 Mistral AI vs. Silicon Valley: The Rise of Sovereign AI
Mar 19, 2026 negative
Opinion
Evans: 'Agent' in AI is as fuzzy a term as 'metaverse'
“It's a very kind of, it's a slightly kind of fuzzy term. It's a little bit like saying metaverse. You know, you don't really know what somebody meant when they might've meant VR or VR is real. They might've meant games. Games are real. But when they said metav…”
Benedict Evans Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 17:12 Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
May 7, 2026 positive
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Kolter: AI agents might turn mechanistic interpretability into a science
“I think that we actually might finally be able to make more what I would consider a science of this through essentially leveraging mass research by agents deployed for this problem.”
Zico Kolter May 7, 2026 ▶ 1:02:13 OpenAI Board Member Zico Kolter: Modern AI Is Just 200 Lines of Code
May 14, 2026 negative
Opinion
Burazin: AI agents make local host development obsolete
“Now that agents are here, local hosts no longer actually, one, you don't want that for a number of reasons.”
Ivan Borzin May 14, 2026 ▶ 8:12 The Agent Harness: Building Secure Sandboxes for Autonomous AI Workloads
Jul 9, 2026
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sands: Consumers are months away from allowing continuous AI wallet authorization
“I still think that we will be a few months hence before folks are actually agreeing to You know, agents using the wallet beyond a particular scoped transaction”
Emily Glassberg Sands Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 27:36 The "Token Heist" Wiping Out AI Startups | Emily Sands (Stripe)
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