AI agent
also referred to as: ai agents
19 statements across 10 episodes · 10 bullish · 3 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Feb 25, 2025 by John Golden · across every show →
Everything said about AI agent, oldest first
Feb 25, 2025 negative
Golden: AI agents cannot fix poor internal enterprise data
“Most companies data is not clean. It's garbage. You can have the greatest AI agent in the world is only going to be able to leverage the data as it is, right? It's not going to clean your data for you. So you're going to get garbage in garbage out.”
May 13, 2025 bullish
Jul 25, 2025 neutral
Weldon: Teams must formalize human interaction to avoid isolation from AI agents
“We've formalized our amount of interactions on the team. So we don't get people completely disconnected from other humans. So I would say there's a fine line to watch. You don't want to do that totally. Cause then you'll have these people in their own little i…”
Jul 25, 2025 neutral
Weldon: AI agents cannot independently formulate blue-ocean sales strategy
“It can tactically recommend some good things, but strategically it's, it can't decide very often. Here's the customers I want. What it can do is look at and say, Hey, here's the customers that have closed that you have. Here's more like it, but it can't blue o…”
Jul 29, 2025 neutral
Rizzoli: Niche business tasks require AI agents rather than standard models
“Where it does differ is if you either are working on something that is pretty unique to your business... Then that's where AI gets a little bit lost, and developing an agent allows you to give it the necessary information so it can actually do the job.”
Jul 29, 2025 bearish
Rizzoli: AI agents cannot yet autonomously purchase items without explicit preference data
“Unless it knows exactly your preferences of location, hotel, appearance, vibes, et cetera, it's really hard. And we're not quite there yet in which you can just tell an agent, hey, Go buy me some shampoo because I've run out, and he knows exactly what you've b…”
Jul 29, 2025 bullish
Rizzoli: Deploy AI agents for full-time manual tasks and revenue-critical workflows
“The recommendation I have today for agents is if your revenue depends on it, then consider building an agent because it's going to help you grow much faster. If you have someone full time that is doing a manual process in front of a computer, Definitely get an…”
Aug 12, 2025 bullish
Twa: AI agent simulations have replaced human focus groups for Amazon listings
“We even have poll simulations for the images, the copy, the listings themselves, where we can take simulated polls That have been built through agents that then basically act like a virtual audience of thousands to tens of thousands of people, and then come ba…”
Nov 18, 2025 bullish
Nov 25, 2025 neutral
Nov 25, 2025 positive
Windley: Human-in-the-loop is the optimal AI agent architecture today
“We've designed our application to make sure the human is still in the loop, so the recruiter or the user, because of, for qualitative checks, right, and judgment calls, we believe that's the best state of design for AI applications and AI agents today”
Jan 20, 2026
Cakir: Document and Perfect Manual Workflows Before Deploying AI Agents
“I would say don't go agent building right away, build the document. Build a system, build a mirror board where you understand the whole flow and how that's been done. Make sure that there are no cracks in your process, in your SOP, in your system. You know, fi…”
Mar 3, 2026 positive
Wong: Operators should grant AI agents incremental access like new interns
“You will hire an intern and say, look, I don't know you, your resume set, you're great at whatever, bookkeeping. So here's the book. I won't even give you the entire book, right? This is the invoice of this month. Go put it in, and we'll see how you do work. A…”
Mar 3, 2026 neutral
Jul 21, 2026 bullish
Jul 21, 2026 bullish
Meiring: Agentic workflows will cut initial RFP response cycles to one day
“Well, the first step of like the basic bid, no bid, and then answer the questions, that's going to be days, hours. The real long pole in the tent there will be the human just validating that and signing off on it before it goes back in. Because that step's sti…”
Jul 21, 2026 bullish
Meiring: Startups should sell highly focused AI agents to enterprise buyers
“And I actually think it's a better time than ever for smaller companies to be selling into the enterprise with agents, because if those agents can tackle one discrete problem and do it incredibly well, that frees up the humans to do other things, there's a rea…”
Jul 21, 2026 bullish
Jul 21, 2026 negative
Weisbrot: Chooses deterministic automations over AI agents due to lack of trust
“I've implemented dozens of automations into my podcast operations. And I did it as automations, not as agents, even though everyone on the internet is trying to sell me agents. I did it because I don't trust agents. At least not yet.”