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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 …”
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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.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Feig: AI Startups Raising at 100x–1,000x Multiples Will Face Failure and Layoffs
“We know specifically, like we know the numbers, we know sales figures for some of these companies raising at Hundreds of millions to billions, and again, we're looking at thousand x to, you know, hundred to thousand x multipliers, like, a lot of these companie…”
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Feig: AI Coding Tools Shift Hiring Toward High-Agency 'Barrels'
“It used to be that, you know, a team that had a barrel of a PM or a manager and a bunch of ammunition could get a lot done, But now that you kind of can have one person just go use, you know, Codex, Cloud Code, whatever, to go build something, you really just …”
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…”
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Feig: Startup Leaders Must Master AI Tooling Hands-On
“If we are the leaders of this company, we have to know everything there is to know about how AI works, how you build with AI so that one, we are more effective and two, we're building for where the puck is going.”
Disclosure
Feig: Merge screens candidates for AI enthusiasm rather than advanced tool usage
“We ask about it in the interview process. So what we're not looking for is I use the latest cutting edge, but we're looking for, you know, hey, I use it to code sometimes. My company doesn't let me use it to do all these things, but I really want to. That's wh…”
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Feig: AI integration buyers understand their technical requirements far less than SaaS buyers
“When people are buying us for AI use cases, they actually don't really know what they're looking for as much as it was in the past, right? Like we would, yeah, you know, two, three years ago, we go to sell our unified platform to, you know, a classic SaaS comp…”
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Feig: Enterprise trust in AI models is rising despite cloud multi-tenancy reservations
“Over the past year, You've seen people use the models, trust them more, and now everyone's backing away from that language, but there's still a lot of reservations now around using anything AI in the cloud, and so still demands for, no, we want this running in…”
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Feig: AI token maxing leads to severe CFO bill shock
“You're seeing a lot being built, but then the bill comes to the CFO and it's actually really brutal and way worse than they expected. And even if they got double the productivity, they might not have had double the budget for headcount and they, you know, Spen…”
Disclosure
Feig: Merge Built Agent Handler With One Engineer and Founders
“Building our next product agent handler, we had one engineer and me and Shensi, and we were helping on nights, weekends. We did whatever we could have because we needed to contribute.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Feig: Merge Faced 1,000 Bot Signups Scanning Endpoints in One Hour
“Yesterday I had to manually go in and intervene because we all of a sudden had over a thousand bot signups in, in, like, an hour, and we could see them actively scanning all the endpoints across our backend.”
Assertion Supported
Gil Feig: Wiz found vulnerability accessing every hosted repository via single git push
“Basically Wiz found that they were able to do a single git push of a file and gain access to every single repository hosted on the platform.”
