SaaStr 853: The Agents #004: Tragedy Apps, Too Many AI SDRs, and Why Your Next Hire Should Report to an Agent
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Why are AI SDR pitches improving while AI PR pitches are getting blocked?
Okay everybody, welcome to episode four of the agents. Thank you for joining us on our journey so far. If you haven't watched before, even if you have, we are gonna talk about what we've learned running 20 AI agents and three humans, uh, what's worked well for us, what breaks, the challenges, so that as you go through your own AI and AI agent journey, uh, you can avoid a few of the mistakes we've had and maybe go even further than we have. A couple things we're gonna talk about today. Uh vibe coding it's Aster Annual, Amelia will guide us through it. We're gonna talk about AI agents gone wrong. I'm gonna talk about bad AI AI PR pitches. And we're also gonna talk about tragedy apps, apps that should be great, like AI, that aren't.
We're gonna flip it around. We're gonna celebrate Replit's 10-year anniversary, one that stayed in there for a long time and became an agentic leader. We're gonna talk about uh little tiny apps that you can build on API you could never talk before. We're gonna talk about Database deletion, what we've learned, the POC, Pocket OS controversy, why it's misunderstood. We're gonna talk about months of 10K in production, our VP of marketing, things we didn't expect. And that's just a start. Amelia's gonna shut me up when we've said enough. But again, everybody, welcome to the Agents. Uh episode four. I hope you stick with us. Um so far this this has been fairly popular and we hope that it keeps going. So before we kick off, Amelia, I think this is the last episode of the Agents before
Our big community event, Saster AI annual 2026, May 12th through 14 in the SF Bay Area. And we will have both a lot of vibe coding in general. And then you and I will have three vibe coding sessions we're doing in particular to help folks. So really agent building sessions, not so much vibe coding. So can you give us a quick background on the three we're doing and everything, all the other 10, 20 sessions to help folks build and understand agents?
Yeah, a hundred percent. Let me pull it up actually and I'll show you guys what we're doing. But yeah, by the time you guys hear this the next week will be Saster AI annual. So we'll be super close. Not too late to get your tickets. Not too late. not too like come to deploy. It's gonna be, listen, it's gonna be a vibe. Okay. Like I think some of our um sponsors, you know, they get very worried right now about like logistics and all that stuff. I'm like, guys, just don't lose the plot. You're gonna come. There's gonna be a ton of really great people. You just posted on Saster.com how we're, you know, I think 70% founders and CEOs. Like it's just such a great mix of folks. We've got more like technical folks than ever before coming to SASR.
So these are not just, you know, this is not just Joe Smo, SDR, number five on the team. These are actual buyers and builders. coming to Saster. So not too late if you want to come to SEP. There's some fun things here. You can see we're going to keep adding some of these categories just to help you guys decide how to spend your time at Saster. But just for example, if you come to the vibe coding tab, you'll see there's a bunch of classes and stuff that folks are doing. Um just at Sasper annual. related specifically to vibe coding. And to get you guys started, there's a few we're doing just between Jason and myself. So the first two will be on Tuesday. So come come early. Come when the doors open. Do a little rope drop, as I like to call it.
Uh, doors open at noon. Jason's AI Agents 101 will be our first session at one o'clock. So come with your laptop, come do Agents 101. Jason's going to show you first how to build a digital clone/slash agent. If this is the first time you've built an agent or deployed an agent. This is kind of a, let's say, simpler one that we can all do together.
Yeah, if you haven't, if you're f as far ahead of us or further, don't come to this session. Go, go grab some coffee or meet some friends. But if you if you're listening or watching, you feel like you haven't deployed an agent, we'll at least get you
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why are AI SDR pitches improving while AI PR pitches are getting blocked?
0:00–10:41
2
What are “tragedy apps” and why did Descript become one?
10:41–20:44
3
How did Replit seize the AI moment and avoid becoming a tragedy app?
20:44–30:23
4
What does the SaaS API Report Card reveal about agent‑friendly APIs?
30:23–41:08
5
Why is database deletion a critical risk for AI agents?
41:08–51:06
6
How is the AI VP of Marketing (10K) changing campaign creation and execution?
51:06–1:01:26
7
Should companies consolidate AI SDR vendors or keep multiple specialized agents?
1:01:26–1:11:44
8
Why hire a senior person who reports to an AI agent instead of expanding the team?
1:11:44–1:22:44
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