Illia Polosukhin

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Bankless · Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw · 24 Mar 2026 podcast

So, I mean, the main part was the compute wasn't there.

Like there was not enough, like the individual and kind of cluster compute parts just weren't there.

I think as soon as that kind of crossed the chasm, that's when this model started to scale.

I mean, there are a few components.

Obviously, we started with this data labeling, crowdsourcing.

I mean, think of Scale.ai, right?

Scale.ai has, you know, sub-entities everywhere.

It's like a thousands of people company, which then employs, you know, hundreds of thousands of people to actually do the work.

Like, that's just a smart contract, right?

We actually have NeoCrowd been running since 2021.

It has zero employees.

It's, you know, employed thousands of people around the world doing crowdsourcing.

So the reality is like a lot of the supporting infrastructure is just some forms of marketplaces that blockchain is really well designed for.

Same for hardware, compute.

But as you kind of progress forward and you imagine these AI systems are becoming the interface.

And so my main thesis is,

AI will be the way we interface computing.

So it will be the operating system.

This was my thesis with Near AI.

I was saying back then in 2017 that like, hey, computers will write all the code, which means the operating system and apps are going to be just replaced by this AI that's yours that is just writing all the code.

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