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
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Rauch: Significant upside will accrue to agentic developer infrastructure
“There's going to be a lot of upside for agentic infrastructure. So companies that know how to work well with not just humans, but agents.”
Guillermo Rauch Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 23:43 Guillermo Rauch on the Next.js Drama, AI-Driven Dev, Vercel’s v0, and the Future of Frontend.
Apr 6, 2025 positive
Insight
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…”
Aidan McLaughlin Apr 6, 2025 ▶ 17:56 Aidan McLaughlin (OpenAI) On ChatGPT, model welfare, and path to AGI
Apr 6, 2025 neutral
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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…”
Dwarkesh Patel Apr 6, 2025 ▶ 16:38 Dwarkesh Patel (Dwarkesh Podcast) on The Scaling Hypothesis, AI and China
Apr 6, 2025 bullish
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Knoop: AI agents will start working in 2025 due to ARC progress
“I actually think we're going to start to see agents start to work this year specifically because of progress on arc.”
Mike Knoop Apr 6, 2025 ▶ 14:16 Mike Knoop (Arc Prize) on Why Scaling AI Won’t Get Us to AGI
Apr 9, 2025 neutral
Insight
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.”
Shawn 'swyx' Wang Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 20:21 Are AI AGENTS Learning to DREAM? | Shawn Wang on TBPN April 4th
Jun 7, 2025 bullish
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Chen: 2025 will be the year of autonomous AI agents
“We see 25 as this year of agents, right? We think of it as a year where models are going to do a lot more autonomous work. You can let them Kind of be unsupervised for much longer periods of time.”
Mark Chen Jun 7, 2025 ▶ 1:05:08 Weekly Recap - Elon Vs Trump, Ukraine's Drone Attack, Cluely Update & OpenAI CRO
Jan 28, 2026 positive
Insight
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.”
Peter Steinberger Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 8:13 Full Interview: Clawdbot’s Peter Steinberger Makes First Public Appearance Since Launch
Jan 28, 2026 positive
Insight
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.”
Peter Steinberger Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 5:35 Full Interview: Clawdbot’s Peter Steinberger Makes First Public Appearance Since Launch
Feb 5, 2026 bullish
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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…”
Sam Altman Feb 5, 2026 ▶ 2:28 FULL INTERVIEW: Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic’s Attack Ads, Live on TBPN
Feb 5, 2026 bullish
Insight
Altman: Every company is now an API company due to AI agents
“The statement that someone said to me that has stuck in my mind most these last couple of weeks is that every company is an API company now, whether they want to be or not. Because agents are just going to be able to.”
Sam Altman Feb 5, 2026 ▶ 12:43 FULL INTERVIEW: Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic’s Attack Ads, Live on TBPN
Feb 5, 2026 positive
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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…”
Sam Altman Feb 5, 2026 ▶ 3:05 FULL INTERVIEW: Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic’s Attack Ads, Live on TBPN
Feb 23, 2026 bearish
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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…”
Jordi Hays Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 15:33 Why My Article Just Tanked the Market
Mar 19, 2026 bullish
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Cuban: More People Will Attend In-Person Events as AI Automates Work
“I think in reality, more people will want to go to in real life events than before, because if, you know, if you're just managing agents, looking at output, looking for exceptions, you're going to want some human touch, right?”
Mark Cuban Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 6:56 FULL INTERVIEW: Mark Cuban on Robots, AI, Self-Driving, and Advice to Students
Apr 27, 2026
Insight
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.”
Jordi Hays Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 18:20 China Blocks Meta’s $2B Manus Deal, Meta Bets on Space-Based Solar | Diet TBPN
Apr 27, 2026 bullish
Opinion
AI agents cannot yet handle complex video editing workflows
“Like, you should be able to puppeteer that with an agent, but I don't know of any agents that are really there on the video editing front. Certainly, like, the next the next chip to fall, the next opportunity.”
Jordi Hays Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 5:17 China Blocks Meta’s $2B Manus Deal, Meta Bets on Space-Based Solar | Diet TBPN
May 8, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chesky: Future Software Will Be UI-Rich Agents, Not Text Apps
“I think the future are not apps, the future agents, but I don't think they're going to be text forward. I think they're going to be really rich user interface.”
Brian Chesky May 8, 2026 ▶ 9:04 Airbnb CEO on Why AI Will Create a New Era of Consumer Products
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