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 some cases just because they're technically difficult, I'm trying to access data an agent's trying to access data and it's just very hard to integrate with that system. matched

In some cases it's very deliberate, right? matched

My iPhone, the photos are not accessible via any API because it's a walled garden. matched

right? matched

The so is that something that's holding back agents or is making them more difficult or to make it even stronger? matched

Consumer companies traditionally matched

often were opposed to offering automated access to their services because they want the user engagement, they want the time to advertise to the user. matched

Will that limit how much we can deploy agents? matched

There's also the opposite that could happen, right? matched

That basically all the consumer sites are starting with more and more complex anti-agent captures trying to keep out their agents because they only want the humans that have attention to come to those sites. matched

I mean, I recently did use one of these deep research tools, one of the major LLMs. matched

And one of the steps, if you look through it, all the steps we went through was like, you know, trying to see how I can get around a capture mechanism for a site. matched

There was an actual reasoning step, right? matched

Where basically matched

It felt it know what information it wanted and it was blocked from accessing it. matched

So is that the you know, how how dystopian is the future gonna be here? matched

It solved it actually. matched

It may be that i it's much harder to tell the difference between an LLM and a human than a classic, you know, sort of API call mechanism at a human. matched

That may be that may change the dynamics. matched

I think the positive vision is that in two years we figured out how an agent working on my behalf can use most of the tools that I have access to. matched

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