Guido Appenzeller

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1,314 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard May 2025 last heard 15 Jul

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The a16z Show · What Is an AI Agent? · 22 May 2025 podcast

But curious about your take. matched

Which there's sort of two two important parts of that. matched

One is this notion that it's not just a single prompt and not even just a single static matched

sequence of prompts, right? matched

But something where the LLM takes the output of a prompt, feeds it back into itself, and based on that makes decisions on what the next prompt and and likely also when to abort. matched

Like you went to when when to complete a task. matched

I think that for the matched

Re real agents are the more agentic behaviors, I think that's a reasonably a good definition. matched

But just by that matched

Cha chain of thought is a little bit in between. matched

If it's just a single prompt and comes back with a result, then it wouldn't have this notion of planning and doing a more long term concept and deciding itself when it is complete, right? matched

If you have a chain of thought reasoning where I'm given a more complex task, that's starting to look agenda, I agree. matched

Yeah. matched

I mean, th that said, it it seems like we're seeing to some degree a specialization of user interfaces in sort of two directions, right? matched

There's let's say the uh a cursor or something like that, which really emphasizes the tight loop between the user, the tight feedback loop between the user and the LM and the thing I'm working on. matched

Right. matched

So I'm I want immediate gratification when I do something, you know, and sort of response time matters. matched

Then there's sort of more the back end as you know, source code management. matched

management system type plugins where it's more about throwing something over the wall by maybe answering a couple of questions and then you try to maximize the amount of time that the agent can work independently. matched

So it seems like I think you're right that there's no clean system defin like definition, like split between the two, but there seems to be a little bit of an in user interface specialization. matched

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