AI agent

“When you look in 10 or 15 years in the future, I think a lot of this stuff will become less relevant. Because little mini AI Sam, Agent Sam looking for things and talking to all of their agents doesn't need to go to Amazon.com. It can be way more creative in t…”

“Oh, I'm long agents, but I think there are too many people trying to build agents, and there's going to be a consolidation of agents to some extent, or.”

“I'm kind of short agents, guys.”

“If you told me I would use an AI that I could dispatch onto large zooms as me, Can log in, review them and just send me notes. That is an actual use case. It has to look like me because otherwise it wouldn't be allowed in. But if there was a thing, which is li…”

“I also don't know how long the web survives it, because when you take away the business model, right, it will collapse.”

“I think that the startups that are doing something more disruptive, i.e., you know, pure agents that, you know, go after a particular role or function, like those will probably work better than trying to be like the AI CRM company.”

“Like any role with that AI is disrupting. You need to know how the sausage is made so that you can tell the agents What you want the thing to do, right? So I don't know that it goes away. I think it just changes structure, like the curriculum itself changes.”

“You don't need to look at it. None of it's investable. It's all just built on top of open AI.”

“It's like self-driving. It's like, no, we're not fucking moments away from agents being all over our lives. It's all marketing. It's all marketing. They all just are reading old science fiction and writing marketing.”

“A dark software factory is basically you're running a agentic engineering organization where you, the code must not be written by humans. The code must not be reviewed by humans and you write tools to understand what's being built and to keep the thorough put …”

“I think that the it's like agents might actually be the website of this, like of this era and like the browser hasn't been built yet.”

“But you don't need standards. It doesn't matter anymore.”

“A rogue AI agent triggered a major security alert at Meta by taking action without approval that led to exposure of sensitive information and user data to Meta employees who could not authorize it.”

“In the past, Questions about customers would happen through, maybe there is a Salesforce account open, and the data team, the data integration, and if it's a very complex question, I have to ask a data analyst. All of that is going through an agent now.”

“Because like one of the other things that we're seeing a lot of is that, you know, if Anthropic decides that they need to shift their business model or whatever, whatever intelligence you're using underneath your agent, you still want its soul and its memories…”

“I've been particularly interested in everything around risk mitigation for agents, obviously, for obvious reasons.”

“And so basically everyone at Vercel is now kind of like the steward of the agent, and that's their new job expectation. And now it's become part of our job screening, which actually forces the hiring manager to think about, I'm hiring a roboticist. I'm not hir…”

“The very fascinating thing about agents is the more power an agent has, the more intelligently it performs. And so if an agent has an entire computer, like a Mac mini, it, you feel like you have AGI in your hands.”

“Instead of asking the person I'm going to ask the agent is a habit your brain has to learn and switch into. And for people in engineering, I think that's more native right now or product, but for people in sales or HR or, you know, even some just non-technical…”

“Moms will always pay 20 dollars a month if like literally two percent of their mental load gets shaved off.”

“And agents, like the narrative between what agents can do and what people think they can do could not be wider. That's like one of my other narrative fascinations right now, Sam, which is that it's like anybody building this stuff knows that like they cannot d…”

“I keep saying this, but I think it's kind of 1997. I always say it's like either 1983 or 1997, depending on which part of the technology canon you want to look at. But we're kind of in that era where websites were just invented. Some of the early languages for…”

“I have my agents now. When I have an external meeting with like an LP or a founder or something, I get graded on how the meeting went for me, for them, the whole meeting.”

“The truth is there's about, you know, there's less than ten million people using these things.”

“The email agent thing, I was on with an entrepreneur, actually two in the last week, and he's like, well, I have, like, the, I call the agent, and I text the agent, and I was like, yeah, but email's by far the best, and he's like, yeah, it is. Email's sick. Th…”