autonomous agents

also referred to as: autonomous agent

6 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 4 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Apr 27, 2023 by Sarah Guo · across every show →

Everything said about autonomous agents, oldest first

Apr 27, 2023 positive
Insight
Guo: Autonomous agents orchestrate LLM loops without changing model architecture
“The basic idea is to orchestrate LMs in this like iterative loop towards some high level goal. Where they're doing planning, and if memory, and prioritization, reflection, and so you're not necessarily changing the architecture of the LLM itself, but this orch…”
Sarah Guo Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 2:59 No Priors Ep. 14 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
May 4, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Guu: AI Agents Relying Purely on Explicit Reasoning May Fail to Scale
“That's something that seems to be missing from these autonomous agents right now. Everything is explicit reasoning, and at some point that might not scale or that might become brittle.”
Kelvin Guu May 4, 2023 ▶ 20:39 No Priors Ep. 15 | With Kelvin Guu, Staff Research Scientist, Google Brain
Mar 5, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Hendrycks: AI Models Remain 'Extremely Defective' as Autonomous Agents
“This could possibly change overnight, but it's still near the floor. I think they're still extremely defective as agents.”
Dan Hendrycks Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 33:05 No Priors Ep. 105 | With Director of the Center of AI Safety Dan Hendrycks
Oct 2, 2025 negative
Insight
Arora: Companies with poor UI loyalty are most vulnerable to AI agents
“No, look, I think the most vulnerable people are where there is poor loyalty to the UI.”
Nikesh Arora Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 7:27 No Priors | With Palo Alto Networks CEO & Former Chief Business Officer of Google Nikesh Arora
May 28, 2026 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Autonomous agents are the fastest growing AI category but lack controls
“And so I think that today autonomous has by far the fastest growing category and today typically comes without any controls.”
Maxim Bar Kogan May 28, 2026 ▶ 9:49 Building an AI Guardian for Enterprise with Onyx Security CEO Maxim Bar Kogan
May 28, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Claude Code became the first widely used autonomous AI agent
“We had a cloud code, which became like the really first widely used autonomous agent.”
Maxim Bar Kogan May 28, 2026 ▶ 4:15 Building an AI Guardian for Enterprise with Onyx Security CEO Maxim Bar Kogan
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