Andy Halliday

There used to be chatbots, now there's agents.

This is a major change in the way things are done across the world with respect to AI.

Microsoft has an executive vice president.

This is a very high level person, but I've never heard of his name before because we always hear of Mustafa Suleiman and others who are heading up the AI initiatives at Microsoft.

But this EVP, Charles Lamanna, opened the event with this anecdote.

He said, an AI agent declined 17 meetings on his behalf.

He said he not summarized them, didn't flag them, declined them.

And for Lamanna, that moment was a clear line of separation.

He said, the sun has set on AI as a chat assistant.

And then he then described something that describes, I think, something that we don't have a lot of visibility into, but I think we can imagine it.

In the most AI-forward companies out there, what does work look like now?

And he said, here's the shift.

Teammates now communicate with not slide decks and spreadsheets.

Instead, they're sending around lightweight mini web apps to each other that pull live data and let leaders in their organization click through scenarios in real time.

keep going i'm going to try to come back to you okay but yeah you got to solo this one for just a little bit i'll be back okay sounds good um so then open ai's chief technology officer of the applications division uh now remember there's two ceos at open ai one is sam altman and the other is fiji simo she is the ceo

of the applications group and they're the people who are deciding which products are going to get built and how to move them to market now this cto the technical mind behind the applications group vijay raji told attendees that he had vibe coded his own personal tool using codex

That's OpenAI's coding agent.

And that it's his personal assistant.

It summarizes Slack messages.

It does his emails and does this every 15 minutes on a schedule.