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Dettmers: Coding agents serve as general-purpose AI agents for digital tasks
“Coding agents are general agents. Coding agents can write programs that solve other problems, and code is so general, if there's a digital problem, you could solve it for code, and coding agents make the thing so easy that now you can solve a variety of proble…”
Tim Dettmers Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 36:19 The End of GPU Scaling? Compute & The Agent Era — Tim Dettmers (Ai2) & Dan Fu (Together AI)
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Dettmers: Students using AI agents perform poorly on basic domain knowledge
“If we let people use agents, they perform very poorly on basic knowledge. And if we let people just do the basic knowledge, they don't know how to use agents and they can't compete. So they can't do useful work in the workforce nowadays.”
Tim Dettmers Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 51:22 The End of GPU Scaling? Compute & The Agent Era — Tim Dettmers (Ai2) & Dan Fu (Together AI)
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Dettmers: AGI economic adoption may temporarily dip productivity before boosting it
“And similar to when computers were introduced, productivity increased. Not initially, productivity actually went down. And you need to do diffusion in the economy to pick it up again. We might see something like that with AGI more broadly, and starts with soft…”
Tim Dettmers Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 6:57 The End of GPU Scaling? Compute & The Agent Era — Tim Dettmers (Ai2) & Dan Fu (Together AI)
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Dettmers: Automating calendar scheduling with AI agents yields minimal productivity gain
“An agent doesn't know that. And if you specify that to an agent, you could also just create the calendar invite, the meeting pipeline, and it doesn't increase productivity by much.”
Tim Dettmers Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 43:34 The End of GPU Scaling? Compute & The Agent Era — Tim Dettmers (Ai2) & Dan Fu (Together AI)
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