Mitch Trojanowski

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Aug 5, 2026 positive

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Trojanowski: Agent Behavior Specs Align Human Teams, Not Just Models

“It is actually both a spec and a rubric. We call this specs and there were some people who asked, isn't this a rubric? And it is, it's both. The reason it's both is because it is not just used to grade or potentially reward the agent. It's also used to align t…”

Mitch Trojanowski Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 55:12 How to Build Autonomous, Long-Horizon AI Agents | Basis

Aug 5, 2026 positive

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Trojanowski: Codebase ontology matters as much for AI agents as for engineers

“The ontology of your code base, it always mattered for engineers. It matters just as much, if not more, for really good agents over time.”

Mitch Trojanowski Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 1:01:12 How to Build Autonomous, Long-Horizon AI Agents | Basis

Aug 5, 2026

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Trojanowski: Long-Horizon Agents Must Use Reasoning for State Management

“Once you start getting to longer horizons where you're beyond the context window or you're getting to context rot, you need to kind of use in sort of brute force your reasoning to build out your environment. Whether that be with sub agents or compaction, we ta…”

Mitch Trojanowski Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 13:45 How to Build Autonomous, Long-Horizon AI Agents | Basis

Aug 5, 2026 neutral

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Trojanowski: AI models will subsume agent harness engineering in 2-5 years

“I think that how long it will take to get swallowed up. I don't know exactly. You know, I think it's probably sub five years. I don't think it's sub two years. I think it's probably sub five years.”

Mitch Trojanowski Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 1:17:48 How to Build Autonomous, Long-Horizon AI Agents | Basis

Aug 5, 2026 positive

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Trojanowski: Cheaper inference is replacing graphs and embeddings for agent ontologies

“As models are getting cheaper and cheaper, more and more of that actually can just be done using inference instead of using determined, like things like graphs or things like embeddings.”

Mitch Trojanowski Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 1:03:30 How to Build Autonomous, Long-Horizon AI Agents | Basis

Aug 5, 2026 positive

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Trojanowski: Autonomous agents must optimize for reviewer legibility, not just completion

“And you can like optimize, not just for getting the work done, but for making it easy for your reviewer to understand the decisions that you made. And that's obviously very true in software engineering, and it's actually true in, I think, most professions and …”

Mitch Trojanowski Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 10:58 How to Build Autonomous, Long-Horizon AI Agents | Basis

Aug 5, 2026 neutral

Opinion

Trojanowski: Nothing Paradigm-Shifting Has Changed Since o3

“Things have really not changed since oh three, I would say. Almost everything since oh three has been relatively on, I don't want to say on trend and then like I knew this exact trend, but I would say it's all within the same paradigm. Like nothing paradigm sh…”

Mitch Trojanowski Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 53:22 How to Build Autonomous, Long-Horizon AI Agents | Basis

Aug 5, 2026

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Trojanowski: Best Agent Intuition Comes From Automating Your Own Work

“A lot of the people with the best agent intuition, actually, yes, a lot of people come from ML backgrounds, but people who don't, a lot of them are ones who are just really good at automating their own work.”

Mitch Trojanowski Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 54:21 How to Build Autonomous, Long-Horizon AI Agents | Basis

Aug 5, 2026 negative

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Trojanowski: 10-Hour Agent Runs Are Not Black Boxes

“Not thinking that an agent operating over 10 hours is a black box. It's not. It has a lot of data, and you're probably doing a disservice to your customers if you don't understand, like, how it's going about the work.”

Mitch Trojanowski Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 58:07 How to Build Autonomous, Long-Horizon AI Agents | Basis

Aug 5, 2026 negative

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Trojanowski: Technical AI moats are not real moats

“Technical moats are not real moats. Like, I, there's no portion of basis's long-term terminal value that stems from some, you know, secret RL trick we found that nobody else found.”

Mitch Trojanowski Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 1:19:08 How to Build Autonomous, Long-Horizon AI Agents | Basis

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