Wade Foster
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first heard Sep 2024
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And in some cases, I'm gonna write code to actually complete that task so that it is deterministic, which means lower costs, better reliability, et cetera.
And then I'm gonna invoke an AI or build an agent for the parts that really require reasoning.
And when we look across like even our own a like in customers usage of agentic products, the vast majority of what people are using an agent for, 80% in fact, they probably should be using
actually old-fashioned deterministic code.
You really only want the AI to reason over the things that you need it to reason for.
And so I still think there is a huge amount of work that is happening inside of these production workflows inside of a company that you shouldn't actually try and be delegating it to in AI.
And we'll see how long that lasts.
Obviously AIs are getting better and better.
But I struggle to think of a world where there are just certain jobs that like deterministic code is still gonna be more reliable and cheap.
And there are certain jobs that it cannot do.
And for those, you need the ghost in the machine.
You need the AI that can tackle those tools.
And so I think the the right thing is you're trying to teach the agent.
how to go do that on its own.
And so when you talk to it, it goes and builds those things in an optimized way instead of saying, hey, I'm just gonna build an agent that runs agentically every single time.
It has a better sense of which is the right tool for which job.
Maybe I misspoke, but that example is one that happens every day, if not multiple times in inside of a company.
You closed a deal.
If you're any good organization, you're closing deals all day, every day.
There are so many workflows inside of a company that are kicking off
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