Goldsmid: AI Agents Will Only Succeed at Low-Leverage Tasks
Aaron Goldsmid · How to build great products—lessons from Amazon, Facebook, Twitter & Deel. | Aaron Goldsmid, Head... · PMF Show · Dec 5, 2024 · at 15:37
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Aaron Goldsmid, Head of Product at Deel, assesses the viability and adoption curve of AI agents in business workflows.
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“And so I also think that the, are AI agents going to eventually get there for sure, right? But I think they're going to get there for relatively low leverage work. And I think that if they are interacting with a human, I think the human's going to get pretty annoyed pretty quick.”
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