agent

also referred to as: agents

9 statements across 6 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Sep 12, 2025 by Amjad Masad · across every show →

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Sep 12, 2025 negative
Insight
Masad: AI agents struggle to write authentication logic, needing built-in services
“Agents are actually not very good at authentication. It's better to use a service, built-in service.”
Amjad Masad Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 6:27 The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
Sep 12, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Masad: Parallel simulation testing will increase AI agent reliability by 2-3x
“So at any given problem, generating a ton of different ways of doing it, and then testing all of them in parallel. This will bring up reliability of agents by, I think, two to three folds.”
Amjad Masad Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 14:17 The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
Oct 7, 2025 negative
Insight
Base model alignment does not guarantee AI agents align with user interests
“The truth is, even if you have a perfectly aligned, you know, quote unquote, like intent aligned model, It's going to be used by a corporation or a startup to build an agent for that user. And then the question is, can you trust the startup that's building the…”
Jordan Fisher Oct 7, 2025 ▶ 11:47 Ask These Questions Before Starting An AI Startup · Y Combinator
Feb 21, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Taggar: Autonomous agents will select dev tools, spawning a parallel agent economy
“The agents are going to go out and choose Tools to use to build things, which is going to essentially create a whole economy of agents, like picking and choosing dev tools and maybe other like products and goods and services, who knows, but it will essentially…”
Harj Taggar Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 2:50 The AI Agent Economy Is Here · Y Combinator
Feb 21, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Friedman: Majority of Software Code Is Probably Already Written by AI Agents
“It's already probably the case that the majority of code being written is written by agents.”
Jared Friedman Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 19:28 The AI Agent Economy Is Here · Y Combinator
Apr 23, 2026 positive
Insight
Tan: AI agents perform real work when structured like human teams
“It turns out, the way to get agents to do real work is the same way humans have always done it. As a team, with roles, with process, with review.”
Garry Tan Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 0:49 How to Make Claude Code Your AI Engineering Team · Y Combinator
May 27, 2026 positive
Insight
Koomen: Centralized databases enable AI agents to answer arbitrary business questions
“When all of that context is in one place, with a little bit of additional information about how the schema is laid out. An agent can go and ask any, or answer arbitrary questions about our business.”
Pete Koomen May 27, 2026 ▶ 8:30 Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator
Jul 30, 2026 positive
Insight
Jeff Dean: Inference-time compute search improves reliability in agent workflows
“Inference time compute to perform search over plausible ways of solving the problem that can get much, much higher performance or much more reliability in, Long-running agent flows.”
Jeff Dean Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 24:13 Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI · Y Combinator
Jul 30, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Jeff Dean: Google adds custom skill definitions for internal developer agents
“Particularly in the internal Google development environment, we have skills so that the agents can know how to use lots of our internal tooling for coding, or for code reviews, or for, you know, measuring performance, or, you know, fetching log files, and thos…”
Jeff Dean Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 24:36 Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI · Y Combinator
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