David Sacks

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The a16z Show · Replay 2025: David Sacks on AI, Crypto, and America's Technology Future · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

I just don't, you know, we haven't seen any evidence that that fundamental dynamic is changing.

um i mean i think you know we're at the i mean i love to hear what you guys think about this and we're obviously at the outset of of agents and um you know in agents you can give an objective to and then we'll be able to take tasks on your behalf but i suspect that the agents will work better as well when they have a much more narrow context they're much less likely to go off the rails start going in weird directions if you give it like a very broad

you know, a very broad task, it's just not likely to completely figure it out before it needs human intervention.

But if you give it something very narrow to do, then it's much more likely to be successful.

So, you know, I would just guess like, okay, just you tell the AI, you know, sell my product.

it's very unlikely that it's going to figure out what that means and how to do that.

But if you're a sales rep and you're using the AI to help you, there's probably very specific tasks that you can tell it to do and it would be much more successful doing that.

So I just tend to think, I mean, this also kind of speaks to the whole job loss narrative.

I just think that this is going to be a very synergistic tool for a long time.

I don't think it's going to wipe out

um human human jobs i don't think the need for human cognition is going away um it's something that you know we'll we'll all use to kind of get this big productivity boost at least for the foreseeable future i mean i don't know i don't know if anyone can any of us can predict what's going to happen beyond five or ten years but i mean that's just what i'm seeing right now i don't know i'm curious what are you guys seeing this front

I think it's so important that this technology remain decentralized because the Orwellian concern is kind of the ultimate centralization

And fortunately, so far, what we're seeing in the market is that it's hyper competitive.

There's five major model companies all making huge investments.

And the benchmark, the model performance, the evaluations are relatively clustered.

and there's a lot of leapfrogging going on.

So Grok releases a new model, it leapfrogs ChatGPT, but then ChatGPT releases something new, they leapfrog.

So they're all very competitive and close to each other, and I think that's a good thing.

And it's the opposite of what was predicted through this imminent AGI story, where the storytelling there was that one model would get a lead,

And then it would direct its own intelligence to making itself better.

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