Richard White
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But I think for a lot of us that have been in business for a while, there's a credible argument to be made that actually we're in a better position to build a bunch of agents because managing agents is a lot like managing humans.
They need context, they need autonomy, they need like, you know, guardrails, but also not micromanagement.
It's kind of this interesting balance.
It kind of looks a lot like managing people.
And so I actually think a lot about like,
how are you building kind of, how are you treating the AI and how are you like building processes around it such that like, it is a lot like managing a good team sort of thing.
I mean, yeah, I've seen two things.
One, we still see a lot of hesitancy in the enterprise to do any of these things because they're really hesitant about their data being elsewhere now that they can see the value of what you can do with that data, right, with AI.
But on the other hand, we've also seen that, like, it's actually way harder to build internal AI tools than people thought.
I mean, the thing you were just mentioning about, hey, there's a new model every three, six months.
the other side of that coin which i don't think people realize is that that also means there's a model getting deprecated every three to six months too so you go build something on opus 4.6
gosh, you maybe get six months before you need to go rebuild that on Opus 4.8 because the finite amount of compute in the world is sloshing back over the 4.8.
And even though they haven't technically EOLed 4.6, it doesn't, you know, when you ask it a question, it doesn't work two thirds of the time, right?
And so there's this other interesting thing that we're doing is like, we're moving a lot off this frontier models and onto open source models, not to save money, that's nice, but because like the, basically the upgrade life cycle on these things is insane, right?
And they're not forward compatible.
A thing you build for 4.6 will work for 4.8, but you want to start from scratch.
So you're just constantly rebuilding.
You're constantly rebuilding.
And so I still think there's a place for vendors like us because, like I said, for any feature we have, whether it's writing a summary, finding the action items, answering questions, there's a purpose-built pipeline there that usually has 4K.
five or six different models in the mix some from frontier labs some open source increasing more open source but like it is not the the building cycle has gotten way easier the maintenance cycle has gotten way worse and so like it's never been easier to stand up a prototype is what i want this works and yet that thing you'll have to rebuild every six months is almost the new new thinking i i just want to make that sound uh a little bit more um
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