AI agent

also referred to as: ai agents

34 statements across 18 episodes · 21 bullish · 5 bearish · 19 people on the record · first statement Aug 23, 2024 by Grace Isford · across every show →

Everything said about AI agent, oldest first

Aug 23, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Isford: Improved AI agent architectures will emerge within 12 to 18 months
“I think there'll be better architectures and better data collection ways to make AI agents more productive. And I think we will see that. Out of top research labs and top startups in the coming, you know, 1218 months.”
Grace Isford Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 41:23 Computer Science is 'So Hot Right Now' | Grace Isford, Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Aug 23, 2024 neutral
Insight
Isford: AI agents only succeed at scale when narrowly verticalized
“I think where we have seen it actually working at some sort of scale would probably be coding, customer support, or sales. And generally the ones that have worked better are very verticalized. So they're doing a clear workflow really well. They're not a genera…”
Grace Isford Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 42:00 Computer Science is 'So Hot Right Now' | Grace Isford, Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 25, 2024 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2027
Socher: AI agents will outnumber human web surfers within years
“I think in the next few years, we're going to see more AI agents surfing the web for people than we'll have people surfing the web.”
Richard Socher Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 28:33 Former Chief Scientist at Salesforce, Richard Socher | You.com, LLMs, AI Agents, Complex Work · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 25, 2024 bullish
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Socher: Most workers will become managers of AI agents
“That's what's going to happen when intelligence gets cheaper and cheaper. We'll just be all much more efficient. And most of us have to become managers of AI agents doing work for us.”
Richard Socher Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 37:50 Former Chief Scientist at Salesforce, Richard Socher | You.com, LLMs, AI Agents, Complex Work · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 25, 2024 neutral
Insight
Socher: 95% accurate agents fail half the time over 15 steps
“If your agent is like 95% accurate on each step and you multiply .95, like times 15, then like half the time that process will fail, right? If it's not like implemented in a way that's very robust to errors in each step.”
Richard Socher Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 40:25 Former Chief Scientist at Salesforce, Richard Socher | You.com, LLMs, AI Agents, Complex Work · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jan 23, 2025 bullish
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Tunguz: AI agents that actually work will emerge in 2025
“I do think the year, I mean, 20, 25, everyone's been talking about agents. I think you'll start to see agents that actually work pretty well.”
Tomasz Tunguz Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 1:44 Inside Theory Ventures: Tomasz Tunguz’s $688M Thesis on Go-To-Market Disruption · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jan 23, 2025 bullish
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Tunguz: AI agents will deliver significant enterprise ROI by 2026
“And I think in twenty-twenty-five, going back to your first question, we'll make some pretty material advances there, where the predictability is much better, and that will lead into, I think, twenty-twenty-six, where we'll start to see pretty significant ROI …”
Tomasz Tunguz Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 4:45 Inside Theory Ventures: Tomasz Tunguz’s $688M Thesis on Go-To-Market Disruption · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Feb 21, 2025 positive
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Diamond: Saturn replaced overseas manual data agents with AI agents
“And we used to have agents overseas that would do it. Now the agents are AI.”
Dylan Diamond Feb 21, 2025 ▶ 21:03 Taking on an $80 Billion Dollar Market with Gen Z | Dylan Diamond · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 5, 2025 neutral
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Moore: AI agents will likely use both native protocols and human web browsing
“There's a version of this actually happening kind of in AI agents as well, which is, like, will the agents browse the internet like humans do, which is sort of the humanoid side of things, or will we be Changing how the internet works so that agents can intera…”
Bucky Moore May 5, 2025 ▶ 43:41 Why Bucky Moore Joined $30 Billion AUM Megafund Lightspeed · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jun 17, 2025 negative
Opinion
Klein: Authentication is the biggest barrier to reliable AI web browsing
“The biggest thing holding back AI agents from really browsing the web reliably is authentication, and there needs to be some innovation there, probably from a couple very well-established companies.”
Paul Klein Jun 17, 2025 ▶ 26:53 How Browserbase Raised $67.5M to Power AI Agents & Vibe Coders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 23, 2025 neutral
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Enterprises will bear direct legal and financial liability for AI agent failures
“So if it hallucinates a refund policy, if it spews Nazi propaganda, if it leaks your customers' data, if it discriminates against the people you're hiring, the enterprises are going to be on the hook.”
Rune Kvist Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 4:00 Nat Friedman Leads $15M in Superintelligence Insurance Company | AIUC · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 23, 2025
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Enterprises will demand unified umbrella insurance policies for multiple AI agents
“Once Walmart has like, 50 AI agents deployed, they're not going to want each individual provider to ensure them. They're going to want to have one big coverage policy.”
Rune Kvist Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 50:08 Nat Friedman Leads $15M in Superintelligence Insurance Company | AIUC · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Aug 6, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Ward: Carta uses automated AI agents overnight to catch software bugs
“So now we have agents all night going through testing all the different possible things that a customer might do the next morning when they wake up, and then we catch the errors before they do.”
Henry Ward Aug 6, 2025 ▶ 30:09 Carta CEO Henry Ward on Raising $1B, Path to ~$500M ARR, & the Move into PE · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jan 23, 2026 bullish
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Ramaswamy: AI agents will generate massive amounts of telemetry data
“And we are headed into a world of agents that are going to be spewing out even more telemetry information about are they working well or are they not working well. Lots of complicated pieces interacting with each other.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Jan 23, 2026 ▶ 40:10 Snowflake vs Databricks: The AI Data War | CEO of $SNOW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Mar 20, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Huffman: Reddit requires a human present when AI agents use platform
“The way we're thinking about it today is we want to make sure there's an ass in seat. Like, are you physically watching this thing?”
Steve Huffman Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 23:48 How Reddit Went From $12M to $2.2B + Cracked Social Media Monetization · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Apr 13, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Entertainment-Driven Shopping Will Never Become Entirely Robotic
“So forms of shopping that are pure entertainment are never going to go entirely robotic.”
Max Levchin Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 52:04 Max Levchin: “The Net IQ of the World Is About to Go Up 50 Points” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Apr 17, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Abraham: Investors are far from ready to let autonomous AI agents manage their money
“I don't think people are ready to give their money to Open Claw and say, make me money now, please. You know, like, I think we're far away from that, and you know, there's a reason why everyone wants to have a little Mac Mini, because they want to have these t…”
Leif Abraham Apr 17, 2026 ▶ 36:49 The AI Brokerage Quietly Taking on Schwab, Fidelity & Vanguard · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 8, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Khosrowshahi: Uber uses AI agents to analyze searches and customer calls for roadmap
“And the cool thing is now with AI, we can have AI agents essentially look at searches, et cetera. What are the most common requests? Customer service, same thing. When we get calls, all of that can be summarized and can be put into what could be a potential ro…”
Dara Khosrowshahi May 8, 2026 ▶ 6:43 Dara Khosrowshahi’s Full Circle Launch: Expedia x Uber · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 15, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rangwalla: Rise of AI agents is driving massive CPU and memory demand
“And so I think that that is just creating a massive need for more CPUs and more memory. And we're seeing that we're actually just at the beginning of that. I think agents is really what is driving that.”
Jaimin Rangwalla May 15, 2026 ▶ 28:28 Chips, Gigawatts, AI, & Agents: Coatue's Public Markets Update | CIO Jaimin Rangwalla · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 15, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rangwalla: Next-gen AI accelerators will eliminate agent amnesia with persistent memory
“What's changing is now you're getting persistent memory with all of the next evolution of accelerators. And so I think that you're seeing memory content is increasing. The agent is not going to have amnesia anymore. The agent is going to be able to remember.”
Jaimin Rangwalla May 15, 2026 ▶ 27:45 Chips, Gigawatts, AI, & Agents: Coatue's Public Markets Update | CIO Jaimin Rangwalla · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 15, 2026 bullish
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Rangwalla: Individual semiconductor footprints will expand 10x due to AI agents
“Your footprint, you're like a semiconductor or technology footprint as an individual is about to expand by like 10 X because you used to have a couple of devices. Maybe you're someone has an iPad too. So you have X a little more, but like three or four devices…”
Jaimin Rangwalla May 15, 2026 ▶ 25:50 Chips, Gigawatts, AI, & Agents: Coatue's Public Markets Update | CIO Jaimin Rangwalla · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 15, 2026 bullish
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Rangwalla: Individuals will run hundreds to thousands of AI agents within two years
“If you or me in, in a year or two, we're gonna have a claw that's running hundreds of agents at all time. I'm gonna have a similar impact at work. I'm gonna have hundreds, maybe thousands of agents running at all time.”
Jaimin Rangwalla May 15, 2026 ▶ 25:25 Chips, Gigawatts, AI, & Agents: Coatue's Public Markets Update | CIO Jaimin Rangwalla · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 15, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Rangwalla: AI agents launching other agents is an underappreciated breakthrough
“Agents, agents launching agents, I think is one of the most underappreciated unlocks that has happened, because you can give an agent a project now, and you can just go away, and you can come back, and it has done If not all of it, really, really far along.”
Jaimin Rangwalla May 15, 2026 ▶ 20:32 Chips, Gigawatts, AI, & Agents: Coatue's Public Markets Update | CIO Jaimin Rangwalla · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jun 1, 2026 bullish
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Ding: Software companies must go headless to compete for agent traffic
“I think you have to, because I think a lot of times not for all software, but for some software, like you're not going to have time to make a decision for what vendors you use. [1925] Shensi Ding: We notice this with packages a lot, also in cloud code, scarily…”
Shensi Ding Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 35:17 "We Don't Trust Agents" - What This CTO Knows That You Don't · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jun 1, 2026 negative
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2031
Feig: Open-source supply chain attacks will surge as AI agents flood pull requests
“Agents are pushing a ton of code. You don't have enough humans to read all that code, and so things are slipping by, things are getting in, and one of them was a vulnerability that gets injected into an open source package that everybody relies on and uses, an…”
Gil Feig Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 15:24 "We Don't Trust Agents" - What This CTO Knows That You Don't · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jun 1, 2026 negative
Insight
Feig: AI agents cannot be trusted without hard data-leak guardrails
“We don't trust agents. We say, Hey, we can try to set rules, but there needs to be hard guardrails and blocks for things like sensitive data being sent across.”
Gil Feig Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 16:50 "We Don't Trust Agents" - What This CTO Knows That You Don't · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jun 1, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gil Feig: Custom agent harnesses and workflow builders will become obsolete very soon
“You see a lot of people trying to build, like, a custom harness, or, You know use something like a workflow builder to build agents that are repeatable and all of that. And I just ultimately think none of it matters because we're almost at the point now where …”
Gil Feig Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 51:12 "We Don't Trust Agents" - What This CTO Knows That You Don't · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jun 18, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Pereyra: Token billing will spawn an optimization ecosystem to counter model incentives
“I think you're going to start seeing things like this for token billing, where there's going to become this whole ecosystem of like, how do you optimize around this? Because you kind of have these weird misaligned incentives from the model providers, right? Be…”
Gabe Pereyra Jun 18, 2026 ▶ 26:11 Harvey Co-Founder Gabe Pereyra on the Token Pricing Reckoning Coming for AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jun 26, 2026
Insight
Armstrong: Engineers should update AI context repos rather than edit imperfect PRs
“And you have to, it's like a shift in mindset where, you know, let's say that it creates a draft pull request for some new feature, and it's not quite perfect. Your instinct typically would be to go in there and actually edit the pull request to make it better…”
Brian Armstrong Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 37:30 Brian Armstrong: Rebuilding Coinbase Around Intelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jun 26, 2026 bullish
Prediction Held up
Armstrong: AI Agents Will Use Base Wallets to Form an Agentic Economy
“We're also going to see AI agents have their own financial accounts, and we're powering that with the base, like, MCP API so they can have their own self-custodial wallet now and start to have a true agentic economy, paying for goods and services, hiring other…”
Brian Armstrong Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 52:42 Brian Armstrong: Rebuilding Coinbase Around Intelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jun 26, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Coinbase Built Infrastructure for AI Agents to Hold Financial Accounts
“We built out a lot of infrastructure for AI agents to actually get their own financial accounts and connect them into your own, you know, your Coinbase account.”
Brian Armstrong Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 1:19 Brian Armstrong: Rebuilding Coinbase Around Intelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jun 26, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Armstrong: Master AI agents will orchestrate sub-agents and pay for services autonomously
“In the future, you're increasingly gonna Talk to one agent. That agent is going to orchestrate hundreds of thousands of other agents. It's going to pay for goods and services with companies that it needs to engage with to get work done on your behalf.”
Brian Armstrong Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 35:10 Brian Armstrong: Rebuilding Coinbase Around Intelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jun 26, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Armstrong: I test AI tools every few months to ship pull requests
“Well, I mean, I have started writing some code again using AI agents. I test out the tools every few months, make sure I can ship a few pull requests and like still get in the weeds.”
Brian Armstrong Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 36:24 Brian Armstrong: Rebuilding Coinbase Around Intelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 6, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Miller predicts AI agents will exponentially increase compute demand for inference
“Agents start using inference in an exponential way. The demand curve goes way up for what we, what we're going to need from an inference perspective.”
Matt Miller Jul 6, 2026 ▶ 24:28 Accel: The Quiet Firm Behind Facebook, Cursor, Nebius, Lovable, Vercel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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