Ed Zetron

Do you have proof of that?

So one thing that's really been driving me insane, by which I mean going on Twitter, is looking at people like Aaron Levy of Box and Brian Armstrong of Coinbase talking about like agents spending money and the agentic web and how we need to prepare the web for agents doing stuff.

And the agents will do this.

fantastical doesn't exist agents don't do that just like not they don't have the ability to like oh they'll use computers computer use is basically non-functional in ai and it takes insane amounts of compute it feels like a conversation keeps happening in theory in the media on social media about something that's possibly completely impossible but the certainty they discuss it with is insane to me this whole agent conversation i've never seen anything like it in my life

But now no one can control it.

And as a result, the only way to make agents work, which they do not, is to build a bunch of symbolic or if this, then that shit.

Just like scripts.

I mean, if you use Manus, for example, it's just writing a shit ton of Python.

And it's writing it to do stuff that it's like, oh, yeah, let me just do this.

And it just writes a Python tool to fill out a spreadsheet.

It's insane.

It's really insane.

But what's more insane to me is that the conversation around agents is as if they're already here.

I'm about to read you something from Box CEO, Aaron Levy, the CEO of a public company.

One corollary to the fact that AI agents take real work to set up in a company at scale is that the role of the forward deployed engineer or whatever it gets called in the future isn't going away anytime soon.

When a vendor sells any kind of agents into an organization, you're no longer just selling a software tool that gets implemented and you're done.

You're fundamentally selling some sort of

Actual workflow being done by your technology.

What are you fucking talking about?

What are you talking?