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George Frazier

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
257 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

So I think the majority of use for agents in five years is going to be the same interfaces that humans are using just because it's a long tail of integration has already been solved and like all the protections and all the sharing and everything else.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

And would you say the majority would be through APIs that are kind of more of a traditional computer software system?

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

What do you think about things like these technologies that mediate DAO, like MCP, which have emerged to kind of try and solve that problem?

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

Do you think there's a future for those, or do you think that those just give way to strict tool API usage?

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

And this is authorization, authentication authorization and discoverability, like the fact that these things exist.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

And the thing that I find so strange about this is like even the tool use itself, like you could argue that like as smarter models come out, they could build better tools anyways.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

And so sometimes I wonder if like

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

Like, an agent should just be the most minimal thing ever.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

Like, it manages, like, durable state.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

It manages compute.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

And then, you know, you run, like, whatever, like the Anthropic SDK or the OpenAI SDK, and then you just tell it to build its own tools.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

Like, you know, build your connection to this.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

No, it's exactly how it works right now.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

But you could argue that, like, there's so much money being poured into these foundation models, like tens of billions of dollars may become hundreds of billions.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

So the most intelligent thing at any point on the planet is one of these models.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

So why would you use an old tool if it could build a better tool?

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

I debugged NanoClaw.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

Yeah, yeah, that's right.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

Yes, you go.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

Just to maybe wrap this bit up.