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Greg Isenberg

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
15610 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

So there's like this early area of investment that you have to make that sucks, that nobody will tell you, especially Agent Harness's company, because they wouldn't raise as much money if they did.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

But like this, maybe I would give it two weeks because it took me two weeks.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

Like OpenClaw, when I first set up OpenClaw, I thought the same thing.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

I'm like, what is this garbage?

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

It doesn't understand anything.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

It's confused.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

And then I realized, oh, let me go lower level.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

The models and the agents, they don't think like you and me.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

I could tell you, hey, Greg, we need a report on the financials and notion.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

Because you probably were in the same business, we worked together, you would understand based on the context you have of the business what that means.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

But imagine a new guy joins like, yeah, I need a report on the financials.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

So where do I even start?

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

Yeah.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

And, and it goes back to my initial point.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

The models are really, really good now, but the context matters more than anything.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

Right.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

So when you see like these large agent, like companies and sub agents, and again, I'm not saying those don't work, but I'm saying like,

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

Probably won't work for you off rip because you haven't built it up to get to that point.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

Right.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

So let's say like for me, for example, I started with one agent.