Aaron Levie: “Now, the path forward is to make software that agents want. While the biggest users of agents tend to be developers or at least highly technical users that often will have their own preferences of tools, in a world of agents doing any type of task for knowledge workers, this type of preference will slowly drift away. Short of an enterprise already having a standard, agents will then be in the driver’s seat for what gets adopted for any particular workflow. This could mean the tools they sign up for, the code that they write, the libraries that they use, the skills they leverage, and so on. The platforms that are easier for agents to adopt, and solve the agent (and user’s) problems the best, will get ahead far faster than those that don’t. Agents won’t be going to your webinar or seeing your ad; they’re just going to use the best tool for the job, and you’ll want it to be yours.”
NYTimes: “At a moment when faith in markets is fraying and faith in governments is strained, [Adam] Smith’s message is neither to worship the invisible hand nor to wish it away. It is to discipline power, defend competition and keep the focus where he always insisted it belonged: on improving the lives of ordinary people.”
Andy Kessler: “Think of agents as autonomous digital bots that roam up and down a company probing and executing its business process. How items are sold, deals are closed, or inputs are procured. The dream is to have successful agents that efficiently and automatically restructure the organization to optimize the business constantly. Possible? Eventually. But first agents need to understand how the company really works. They need the “context”—a company’s living, breathing ecosystem with “decision traces,” the history of every decision made, every prospect considered, every process used or discarded. Things like “we were a close second and lost that deal but are ready to step in.” Where is that snippet stored today? In someone’s memory. A context graph captures the sequence of decisions—the why. Not a snapshot like an org chart, but a movie with millions of potential plots.”
NYTimes: “Now coding itself is being automated. To outsiders, what programmers are facing can seem richly deserved, and even funny: American white-collar workers have long fretted that Silicon Valley might one day use A.I. to automate their jobs, but look who got hit first! Indeed, coding is perhaps the first form of very expensive industrialized human labor that A.I. can actually replace. A.I.-generated videos look janky, artificial photos surreal; law briefs can be riddled with career-ending howlers. But A.I.-generated code? If it passes its tests and works, it’s worth as much as what humans get paid $200,000 or more a year to compose. You might imagine this would unsettle and demoralize programmers. Some of them, certainly. But I spoke to scores of developers this past fall and winter, and most were weirdly jazzed about their new powers.”
