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Illia Polosukhin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1100 total appearances

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

like code code codex like this agents are being extremely useful they still have sometimes lapses of judgment sometimes they're like this is a dumb idea and it's like oh yeah it was like I can do it way simpler now it's like

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

You know, we as people feel good about ourselves doing that.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

But obviously, like from a coding perspective, they completely replace these things.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

Now, the bottleneck actually shifts.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

So this is, I forgot the name of the principle, but this was like in parallel computing.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

If you have like 50% of the time parallel and 50% of the time sequential, if you parallelize more, right, and this shrinks, you only can go 2x faster.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

You cannot actually go 10x faster when you add more cores.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

So we're kind of right now in this state where, yes, everybody individually can write more code, again, for this specific vertical.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

But the bottleneck now is actually serializing all of that, reviewing it, making sure it's all aligned with product, et cetera.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

So coordination becomes a bottleneck.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

And I think we see this in other areas as they kind of get adopted, these tools, but more and more, you know, marketing, sales, et cetera, that yes, individually, everybody can go and like bang out a bunch of stuff, right?

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

Like, cool.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

I have an AI tool that can like create, you know, a ton of creative about and like, you know, marketing campaigns and tweets and,

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

But the coordination, like, is this the right thing?

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

That kind of organization usually is how you work is a challenge now.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

And so again, this is where I actually think we'll need to transition to maybe a more market economy in organizations as well, where kind of right now the hierarchy was designed, right?

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

Because you kind of like had a bunch of people, you know, in a team who could execute and then you kind of bottlenecked on the decisions and you need to do it like once in a while.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

But now if everybody can like execute like 10x, 100x in parallel, this bottleneck is just like too much.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

And so you actually need a different structure.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

And markets actually have a different structure where you have to say, hey, here's a goal.