Masad: Modern AI agents are a "hack" not trained for autonomous actions
Amjad Masad · Replit CEO Builds an App with 100% AI in 20 Min: Future of Coding? · Oct 6, 2024 · at 32:23
Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit, discusses the fundamental architectural constraints of building AI agents on top of existing LLMs.
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“The way agents are built today are kind of a hack. Like it is not really trained to be agentic.”
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