Arvid Kahl
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22,801 appearances
96 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2024
last heard 3 Apr
Arvid Kahl’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It is not needed to build a SaaS business around taking an Excel sheet and emailing out reports, even though many of those exists, but the Agentics system can do most of this by itself right now.
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But when it comes to data collection at scale, agents don't usually do this.
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It's the ephemeral nature of the agentic mode here, right?
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If you spawn a cursor session or a Cloud Code instance or you have a conversation in your browser with your Chat GPT, only during these brief moments of interaction does the agent actually exist.
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Everything else is just entries in a database somewhere, just a state in a state machine that's trying to get you to your results.
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But the agent gets only kind of placed on the GPU and runs for you when it's thinking, not in between.
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So an agent that constantly scans and constantly does work for you would consume so many tokens that it becomes almost prohibitively expensive.
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So if you were to spawn an agent that tries to do what Podscan is doing, taking in and transcribing and analyzing 50,000 podcast episodes a day, that would likely cost you tens of thousands of dollars in tokens and API calls, not per month, but per day.
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Whereas in my business, I've optimized all these processes so that it happens much cheaper, much more reliable in the background and makes the data available to my potential customers.
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And those are API customers, people using the website, or people using the new MCP integration that I put into the system recently.
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So it can be plugged into agents directly.
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So now agents are also consuming pod scan.
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Being the system of record, having data that is meaningful and kind of isolated to me, only I have this data, that is why it's so valuable to my customers.
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If all Podscan did was give people the capacity to give me a URL and I'll transcribe and analyze it for you, then I think the software of the product, Podscan itself, would be like two hours away from being completely replaced by a well-written skill inside cloud code or something similar.
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But since Podscan collects all this data.
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The audio, the freshness of it, chart rankings, social feeds, additional metadata from all over the place.
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From sources that most people don't even know exist and can be accessed.
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That is the system of record nature of this business.
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And that is pulling together data, making it comprehensible and accessible to other systems.
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So when I say data mode, or data is the only mode at this point.
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