agent

also referred to as: agents

12 statements across 10 episodes · 3 bullish · 5 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Sep 29, 2023 by Scott Belsky · across every show →

Everything said about agent, oldest first

Sep 29, 2023 neutral
Insight
Belsky Outlines an AI Agent Pyramid From Help Desk to Proactive Actions
“My view is that an agent is literally not only in the pyramid of things, right? It can start by answering your questions and it's a glorified help desk, but then going up the pyramid a little bit, it starts to proactively do things for you. Like it's sort of, …”
Scott Belsky Sep 29, 2023 ▶ 22:22 #16: Why Your AI Startup is Probably Already Dead · More or Less Podcast
Sep 29, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Belsky predicts AI agents will protect users from AI-driven harms
“Agents are going to save us from all the concerns we have about AI, because a lot of the concerns around AI.”
Scott Belsky Sep 29, 2023 ▶ 28:03 #16: Why Your AI Startup is Probably Already Dead · More or Less Podcast
Feb 16, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Jessica Lessin: OpenAI is actively developing an AI agent and search engine
“The two new products coming out of OpenAI, one being the agent, the other being a search engine.”
Jessica Lessin Feb 16, 2024 ▶ 48:51 #34: 7 Trillion Reasons Why · More or Less Podcast
Dec 13, 2024 bearish
Insight
Lessin: Free AI agents lack the economic margin to absorb inevitable errors
“If it costs zero dollars to use the agent and there is any error rate and there will be an error rate, right? You have no margin to pay back for the error.”
Sam Lessin Dec 13, 2024 ▶ 25:33 #77: Sora Reveal, Google's AI Agents and Digital Trade Under Trump · More or Less Podcast
Dec 27, 2024 bearish
Insight
Sam Lessin: Cheap AI agents fail economically due to downstream error costs
“If it costs zero dollars to use the agent and there is any error rate and there will be an error rate, right? Dave Morin: Absolutely. Sam Lessin: You have no margin to pay back for the error. So the reason that DoorDash works, for instance, is an economic reas…”
Sam Lessin Dec 27, 2024 ▶ 59:46 #79: The More or Less Holiday Special Pt. 1 (AI Highlights) · More or Less Podcast
Mar 20, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Morin: AI Agents Are the New Websites and Will Dominate the Next Decade
“Agents or clause are like the new website, right? And in the late nineties, you had to figure out how to make a website for yourself. Right. And so a lot of people figured out How to build a website that was about identity or about content. Some people built t…”
Dave Morin Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 37:46 Nvidia’s GTC Was “Taylor Swift for Straight Men” (Apple, OpenAI, and OpenClaw News) · More or Less Podcast
Apr 3, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Dave Morin: Core AI Agent Is Locked Down From Reading Personal Email
“I do not allow my email For example, to be read by my core agent, like my core agent is super locked down, you know, has really tight security around it. But then I have other agents that do specific things that I want to get done.”
Dave Morin Apr 3, 2026 ▶ 20:04 OpenAI's $852 Billion Valuation Makes Zero Sense (ClawCon Tokyo, Anthropic's Leak, Goodbye Internet)
Apr 10, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rauch: AI agents will soon independently sign up and pay for services
“I fully expect agents to be signing up for services directly, zero human intervention soon, making payments on behalf of people imminently, you know, getting credit cards and budgets and solving entire problems for people where the service provider becomes an,…”
Guillermo Rauch Apr 10, 2026 ▶ 9:02 Vercel CEO: 70% of Our Traffic Is Now AI Agents "Nobody Was Prepared" | Anthropic, OpenClaw, OpenAI
May 22, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dave Morin: AI Agents Currently Cannot Learn
“Right now, agents can't learn anything.”
Dave Morin May 22, 2026 ▶ 37:30 Google I/O Just Killed SEO? Agentic Search, Universal Cart, and the New Web · More or Less Podcast
May 29, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Deploying AI agents in an enterprise can spike token consumption 3,000%
“We see this at OpenClaw, is that when you deploy agents into an enterprise, your token consumption goes up sometimes on the order of 3000%.”
Dave Morin May 29, 2026 ▶ 20:38 Normal People Don't Want AI Agents (And Silicon Valley Can't Accept It) · More or Less Podcast
Jun 5, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Morin: The singularity and autonomous AI agents are far away
“Well, I can report from the singularity as someone who's building agents every day that these things are way far away.”
Dave Morin Jun 5, 2026 ▶ 12:32 Silicon Valley IPO Summer 2026: SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI Explained
Jun 5, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lessin: Normal humans will not use AI agents
“Like, normal humans? No. I mean, I'll use them.”
Sam Lessin Jun 5, 2026 ▶ 2:16 Silicon Valley IPO Summer 2026: SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI Explained
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