AI agent
also referred to as: ai agents
12 statements across 7 episodes · 8 bullish · 3 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Oct 12, 2023 by Shaan Puri · across every show →
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Oct 12, 2023 bullish
Puri: AI agents will create self-executing to-do lists
“And what I realized was that's not going to stop at just cars, that the biggest opportunity is the self-doing to-do list, just like we have the self-driving car. And what's a self-doing to-do list? The self-doing to-do list is going to be, well, all of our pro…”
Nov 8, 2024 bullish
Nov 26, 2024 bearish
Nov 26, 2024 bullish
Nov 26, 2024 bullish
Jan 24, 2025 bearish
Jun 6, 2025 bullish
Jun 6, 2025 bullish
Oct 13, 2025 bullish
Bonforte: Consumer AI agents will replace direct website browsing for internet commerce
“I assume that the world will instead end up with a smaller number of agents that act on behalf of consumers going out and doing work. That changes fundamentally the internet. It just means that if you have a website today that sells tickets or bicycles or what…”
Aug 26, 2026 bearish
Foster: Pure AI agents guess and waste tokens; deterministic workflows are more reliable
“Agents, agents, they kind of just guess what to do, right? And if they're smart enough, they guess right most of the time, but sometimes the agents guess wrong. And the second thing is agents are using tokens, right? We probably heard token maxing, right? And …”
Aug 26, 2026 bullish
Aug 26, 2026 neutral
Foster: Cognitive limits will restrict humans to managing roughly 20 AI agents
“Well, so you could, but the thing is, you're only gonna be able to keep up with, what, 20 agents? Cause it's gonna keep assigning you tasks and more things to do and more things to do. And so there still is like a, there still is like a limit.”