agent

also referred to as: agents

12 statements across 11 episodes · 3 bullish · 4 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Apr 25, 2023 by Aravind Srinivas · across every show →

Everything said about agent, oldest first

Apr 25, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Perplexity to prioritize core RLHF over AI agents for 6-12 months
“We haven't gone beyond that to think of like agents and browsers and things like that. We, we'll probably focus more on the first part for the next at least six months to a year.”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 20:05 No Priors Ep. 9 | With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats
Nov 16, 2023 neutral
Insight
Qiu: Developing AI agents today is comparable to writing code in assembly
“So today, like writing agents feels like writing code in assembly, and that really limits the types of agents we can build and also limits the number of people who can build them.”
Kanjun Qiu Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 21:15 No Priors Ep. 41 | With Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht
Dec 7, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shih: AI agents will dramatically transform software development and UI design
“You know, as you're alluding to a lot, agents maturing and being able to do more, I think it's really going to dramatically transform the, how we approach software development, right? A lot of what was explicitly hard coded as different branching and execution…”
Clara Shih Dec 7, 2023 ▶ 13:46 No Priors Ep. 43 | With Clara Shih, CEO of Salesforce AI
Jan 18, 2024 negative
Insight
Liu: Coding agent chains suffer compounding failure from sub-90% step fidelity
“The fidelity of today's systems far less than 90% for each step. So I think this is the issue that everyone building agents in that way is, is encountering is like, you know, you have compounding failure.”
Beyang Liu Jan 18, 2024 ▶ 26:38 No Priors Ep. 47 | With Sourcegraph CTO Beyang Liu
Feb 15, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Zhao: People Will Communicate Less as AI Agents Handle Exchanges
“I probably feel it's probably less the agent side essentially bet on language model, that's the communication.”
Ivan Zhao Feb 15, 2024 ▶ 22:36 No Priors Ep. 51 | With Notion CEO Ivan Zhao
Mar 28, 2024 neutral
Insight
Chase: AI agents fundamentally require cyclical graphs, not linear architectures
“So, you know, all these agents are basically running an LLM in a loop. You need cycles and so lane graph helps with that.”
Harrison Chase Mar 28, 2024 ▶ 3:21 No Priors Ep. 57 | With LangChain CEO and Co-Founder Harrison Chase
Mar 28, 2024 neutral
Insight
Chase: Working AI agents require hardcoded domain structure, not LLM autonomy
“I think when we see people building agents that work right now, it's often breaking it down into a bunch of smaller components and kind of like imparting their domain knowledge about how information should Flow through these components. Because I think the ele…”
Harrison Chase Mar 28, 2024 ▶ 5:28 No Priors Ep. 57 | With LangChain CEO and Co-Founder Harrison Chase
Aug 21, 2025 positive
Insight
Ng: Systematic error analysis with evals separates top AI agent teams
“The single biggest differentiator that I see in the market is, does the team know how to drive a systematic error analysis process with evals? So you're building the agents by analyzing at any moment in time, what's working, what's not working, what do you imp…”
Andrew Ng Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 3:29 No Priors Ep. 128 | With Andrew Ng, Managing General Partner at AI Fund
Feb 19, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Gil: Claims that AI agents make vendor purchasing decisions are overstated
“I think the one other thing people are bringing up that I don't quite buy is that agents are already making like big decisions for vendor purchases and things like that.”
Elad Gil Feb 19, 2026 ▶ 11:08 The AI Code Slop: Risk or Opportunity?
Apr 17, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
McDermott: Single-function SaaS faces high AI risk; platforms remain safe
“So if you think about companies that do something that span multiple departments or are a serious system of record, That is very hard to replicate. They're safe, and they'll, they'll be a part of the future. If you're serving one function, and what you do is n…”
Bill McDermott Apr 17, 2026 ▶ 31:00 Scaling Global Organizations in the Age of AI with ServiceNow Chairman and CEO Bill McDermott
May 28, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Autonomous AI agents recently caused enterprise downtimes and credential leaks
“We've seen some of that happen lately with downtimes that were caused by agents doing their own thing, agents accidentally publishing code and tokens that they weren't supposed to and so on.”
Maxim Bar Kogan May 28, 2026 ▶ 6:41 Building an AI Guardian for Enterprise with Onyx Security CEO Maxim Bar Kogan
Sep 10, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Armstrong predicts AI agents will outnumber humans in near future
“I, there'll be more agents than humans in the not too distant future.”
Brian Armstrong Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 8:55 Coinbase’s Everything Exchange: Agentic Finance, Stablecoins & Tokenization with CEO Brian Armstrong
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