AI Agents Are Here: What They Can Already Do—and What’s Next (Stanislas Polu & Harrison Chase)

Speaker A: The big question we see in the market today, which is interesting, is agents versus AI workflows. We do foresee a world where those agents will be actual coworkers, and I don't think you can really encode a coworker with a workflow. We're really bullish on trying to help people create agents, not workflows. Speaker B: What is the right way to think about what an AI agent truly is and what it isn't? Speaker C: You can often do the same things with workflows and agents. It's just the ease of how you describe it.

In an agent, it would all be in natural language, right? Like you could have a recipe that you just put in natural language, say, hey, do A, then do B, then do C. And it's not as deterministic. Optimistic, so it's not as safe, but it's way easier. Speaker B: I'd love to zoom out for a moment and talk also just about what it means and what it's like to be building in AI at the moment and some of the specific dynamics that founders have to face. Speaker A: The fog of AI is the fact that the foundations are moving very quickly.

And so you have to have a vision of where you're going, but you cannot paint it because if you paint beyond 6 months, whatever you were painting will probably be not true. Speaker D: Hey, I'm Mario, and this is The Generalist Podcast. As the saying goes, the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed. Each week, we sit down with the founders, investors, and visionaries living in these pockets of the future to help you see what's coming next. Today, I'm speaking with Stan Pulu and Harrison Chase about the future of AI agents.