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 →
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Aug 23, 2024 bullish
Aug 23, 2024 neutral
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…”
Oct 25, 2024 bullish
Oct 25, 2024 bullish
Oct 25, 2024 neutral
Jan 23, 2025 bullish
Jan 23, 2025 bullish
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 …”
Feb 21, 2025 positive
May 5, 2025 neutral
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…”
Jun 17, 2025 negative
Jul 23, 2025 neutral
Jul 23, 2025
Aug 6, 2025 positive
Jan 23, 2026 bullish
Mar 20, 2026 positive
Apr 13, 2026 neutral
Apr 17, 2026 bearish
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…”
May 8, 2026 positive
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…”
May 15, 2026 bullish
May 15, 2026 bullish
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.”
May 15, 2026 bullish
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…”
May 15, 2026 bullish
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.”
May 15, 2026 bullish
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.”
Jun 1, 2026 bullish
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…”
Jun 1, 2026 negative
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…”
Jun 1, 2026 negative
Jun 1, 2026 bearish
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 …”
Jun 18, 2026 neutral
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…”
Jun 26, 2026
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…”
Jun 26, 2026 bullish
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…”
Jun 26, 2026 bullish
Jun 26, 2026 bullish
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.”
Jun 26, 2026 positive