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

In most cases, you know, two humans will get replaced, one human that is more by one human that's more productive with AI. matched

Maybe they go to three employees because now they're more productive. matched

Yeah, right, right. matched

In that case, is there actually a difference between an agent and a function? matched

If I have a low level agent and I'm giving this low level agent a task and I get back a task result. matched

It looks a little bit like a classic API call. matched

i but i I understood, but that's sort of how this function works internally. matched

Yes. matched

Right? matched

So from the outside matched

Would I care? matched

If you don't know how this thing works internally. matched

A classic function and agent become indistinguishable. matched

I think it would make sense. matched

I mean when matched

If we go back in time, the last time we sort of matched

invented a major new component for building systems, which was probably networking, right? matched

How we thought about calling a function before networking afterwards changed a lot, right? matched

The issue is like the the complexities of APIs and the infrastructure around it is completely different today. matched

Isn't mechanical Turk exactly that? matched

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