agent
also referred to as: agents
16 statements across 12 episodes · 12 bullish · 1 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Mar 26, 2025 by Guillermo Rauch · across every show →
Everything said about agent, oldest first
Mar 26, 2025 bullish
Apr 6, 2025 positive
McLaughlin: AI model capabilities and character only emerge at extremes
“It's easier to tell the difference in like model capabilities and kind of like character when you push them to extremes, right? When you deploy them into like, you know, agents that are doing like crazy things, when you give them tons of context, when you have…”
Apr 6, 2025 neutral
Patel: Foundation Labs, Not Wrappers, Will Build Reliable Autonomous Agents
“I think it'll probably be one of the foundation lab companies. People have been for years trying to build agents and they just haven't worked. And it makes it makes me think that that's a fundamental limitation of the current models. And so it'll just be the c…”
Apr 6, 2025 bullish
Apr 9, 2025 neutral
Swyx: AI Agent Builders Have Independently Discovered Need for Sleep Cycles
“So, for example, a lot of people building agents have independently discovered sleep. The agents have to sleep because they have to compress memories and do, like, the deep REM thing where they actually turn those into long-term memory.”
Jun 7, 2025 bullish
Jan 28, 2026 positive
Steinberger: Screenshots speed up AI prompting by providing dense context quickly
“Images are like,
They often give you so much context and you don't have to type so much.
So I feel like this is like one of the hacks where you can prompt faster, just like make a screenshot so that agents are really good at figuring out what you want.”
Jan 28, 2026 positive
Steinberger: CLIs are where AI agents excel by closing feedback loops
“I build a lot of CLIs because that's where agents are really good. You know, you have to close the loop. That's always the secret. You have to give, you have to build it so that the agent has the best possible way to build software.”
Feb 5, 2026 bullish
Altman: Workflows Will Shift Toward Managing Teams of AI Agents
“I think we will be heading towards a workflow where a lot of people just feel like they're managing a team of agents, and they'll keep, as the agents get better, they'll keep operating at a higher and higher level of abstraction, which at least watching what's…”
Feb 5, 2026 bullish
Feb 5, 2026 positive
Altman: Agent Tools Will Matter More Than Intelligence Near-Term
“The agents will keep getting better, so you'll keep working at the maximum of your management bandwidth or cognitive ability to keep track of all the stuff and the tools to make that easy to do will matter. I think more than intelligence for a little while, be…”
Feb 23, 2026 bearish
Hays: AI agents will prioritize delivery speed, preserving existing aggregator supply moats
“I would imagine the agent to route to the platform with the supply that is going to be able to deliver in the shortest possible time horizon, And imagining a world where there's like this, you know, vibe coded small team operating that just happens to aggregat…”
Mar 19, 2026 bullish
Apr 27, 2026
A 10x inference compute advantage guarantees AI cybersecurity defense wins
“And even if the models are exactly the same, if I'm able to put 10 agents securing my bank account against your one agent trying to break into it, I will have 10 times the amount of solutions. And so I should win that battle almost all the time.”
Apr 27, 2026 bullish