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The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah

28 Mar 2025 35 published claims 3 attributable people

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01 / belief

I should also thank Sean Puri, who I've chatted with back and forth, who's been, I guess, getting me in touch with your people. But also, I think like, just giving us a lot of context, because obviously, My First Million joined you guys, and they've been chatting with you guys a lot.

“I should also thank Sean Puri, who I've chatted with back and forth, who's been, I guess, getting me in touch with your people. But also, I think like, just giving us a lot of context, because obviously, My First Million joined you guys, and they've been chatting with you guys a lot.”
Speaker
Shawn Wang
Publisher
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03 / belief

You are kind of a marketplace, but he has a third angle, which is the model providers, and he lets them compete. And I think that sort of Chai three-way marketplace maybe makes a lot of sense.

“You are kind of a marketplace, but he has a third angle, which is the model providers, and he lets them compete. And I think that sort of Chai three-way marketplace maybe makes a lot of sense.”
Speaker
Shawn Wang
Publisher
Latent Space

04 / uncertainty

Then imagine someone else says, oh, you know, I want to build a brand-building agent for startups and entrepreneurs to come up with names for their startup. Like a common problem, every startup is like, ah, I don't know what to call it.

“Then imagine someone else says, oh, you know, I want to build a brand-building agent for startups and entrepreneurs to come up with names for their startup. Like a common problem, every startup is like, ah, I don't know what to call it.”
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Dharmesh Shah
Publisher
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06 / commitment

Like there are use cases where, and we make these choices all the time, that I will trade, not all privacy, but I will trade some privacy for some productivity gain or some benefit to me that says, oh, I don't care about that particular data being online if it gives me this in return, or I don't mind sharing this information with this company.

“Like there are use cases where, and we make these choices all the time, that I will trade, not all privacy, but I will trade some privacy for some productivity gain or some benefit to me that says, oh, I don't care about that particular data being online if it gives me this in return, or I don't mind sharing this information with this company.”
Speaker
Dharmesh Shah
Publisher
Latent Space

08 / belief

You know, in the, as anything changed, like since you, because you updated this in 2022 and I think now we're kind of like, you know, five years removed from COVID and all of that.

“You know, in the, as anything changed, like since you, because you updated this in 2022 and I think now we're kind of like, you know, five years removed from COVID and all of that.”
Speaker
Alessio Fanelli
Publisher
Latent Space

10 / belief

I know the term was already taken, but it hasn't been used for like 15 years now for its original purpose. But what I think should exist in the world is right now, our information, all of us, nodes are in the social graph at Meta or the professional graph at LinkedIn.

“I know the term was already taken, but it hasn't been used for like 15 years now for its original purpose. But what I think should exist in the world is right now, our information, all of us, nodes are in the social graph at Meta or the professional graph at LinkedIn.”
Speaker
Dharmesh Shah
Publisher
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13 / belief

I'm totally cool with that. But I think what's going to happen is that in the same way you might collaborate with a team member on Slack or Teams or whatever you use, you can imagine a series of agents that do specific things just like a team member might do, that you can delegate things to.

“I'm totally cool with that. But I think what's going to happen is that in the same way you might collaborate with a team member on Slack or Teams or whatever you use, you can imagine a series of agents that do specific things just like a team member might do, that you can delegate things to.”
Speaker
Dharmesh Shah
Publisher
Latent Space

17 / belief

Uh, I'm not trying to sway anyone, but yeah, I think like something I struggled with, with this conviction, you said you pursue things to conviction, but like you start out not knowing anything.

“Uh, I'm not trying to sway anyone, but yeah, I think like something I struggled with, with this conviction, you said you pursue things to conviction, but like you start out not knowing anything.”
Speaker
Shawn Wang
Publisher
Latent Space

19 / belief

I think that's going to unlock so many things just because, and we're already starting to see it. So I think MCP or something like it is going to be the next major unlock because it allows systems that don't know about each other, don't need to, it's that kind of decoupling of like Sentry and whatever tools someone else was building.

“I think that's going to unlock so many things just because, and we're already starting to see it. So I think MCP or something like it is going to be the next major unlock because it allows systems that don't know about each other, don't need to, it's that kind of decoupling of like Sentry and whatever tools someone else was building.”
Speaker
Dharmesh Shah
Publisher
Latent Space

23 / commitment

I think the, the problem, like, so even though at my conferences, GraphRag is super popular and people are getting knowledge, graph religion, and I will say like, it's getting space, getting traction in two areas, conversation memory, and then also just rag in general, like the, the, the document data.

“I think the, the problem, like, so even though at my conferences, GraphRag is super popular and people are getting knowledge, graph religion, and I will say like, it's getting space, getting traction in two areas, conversation memory, and then also just rag in general, like the, the, the document data.”
Speaker
Shawn Wang
Publisher
Latent Space

27 / prediction

I still like to think about—because we'll talk about multi-agent systems, because I think—so we've accepted, which I think is true, lots of people have said it, and you've hopefully combined some of those clips of really smart people saying this is the year of agents, and I completely agree, it is the year of agents.

“I still like to think about—because we'll talk about multi-agent systems, because I think—so we've accepted, which I think is true, lots of people have said it, and you've hopefully combined some of those clips of really smart people saying this is the year of agents, and I completely agree, it is the year of agents.”
Speaker
Dharmesh Shah
Publisher
Latent Space

29 / preference

Sometimes I feel like there's no decision-making in some things like, uh, today I built a autosave for like our internal notes platform and I literally just ask them cursor.

“Sometimes I feel like there's no decision-making in some things like, uh, today I built a autosave for like our internal notes platform and I literally just ask them cursor.”
Speaker
Alessio Fanelli
Publisher
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30 / evaluation

One is the cost of kind of development and coding and things like that stuff that, you know, we talk about. But then like in your example, you know, one of the risks that we have is that because adding a feature, uh, like a save or whatever the feature might be to a product as that price tends towards zero, are we going to be less discriminant about what features we add as a result of making more product products more complicated, which has a negative impact on the user and navigate negative impact on the business.

“One is the cost of kind of development and coding and things like that stuff that, you know, we talk about. But then like in your example, you know, one of the risks that we have is that because adding a feature, uh, like a save or whatever the feature might be to a product as that price tends towards zero, are we going to be less discriminant about what features we add as a result of making more product products more complicated, which has a negative impact on the user and navigate negative impact on the business.”
Speaker
Dharmesh Shah
Publisher
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32 / evaluation

What they don't recognize is that it's not just about the denominator, there's a numerator as well, which is what's the total economic value that's possible. And I would argue that's growing faster than the kind of denominator is, that the actual economic value that's possible as a result of software and what engineers can produce, you know, with the tools that they will have at hand.

“What they don't recognize is that it's not just about the denominator, there's a numerator as well, which is what's the total economic value that's possible. And I would argue that's growing faster than the kind of denominator is, that the actual economic value that's possible as a result of software and what engineers can produce, you know, with the tools that they will have at hand.”
Speaker
Dharmesh Shah
Publisher
Latent Space

33 / prediction

We have clicks, touches, swipes, now voice, whatever it is, the set of primitives that exist right now, we will combine them in, uh, in interesting ways, but where I think AI is going to be headed on, I think on the UI front is the same place is headed on the science front that originally it's like, oh, well, based on the things that we know right now, it'll sort of combine them, but we're like right at the cusp of it being able to actual novel research.

“We have clicks, touches, swipes, now voice, whatever it is, the set of primitives that exist right now, we will combine them in, uh, in interesting ways, but where I think AI is going to be headed on, I think on the UI front is the same place is headed on the science front that originally it's like, oh, well, based on the things that we know right now, it'll sort of combine them, but we're like right at the cusp of it being able to actual novel research.”
Speaker
Dharmesh Shah
Publisher
Latent Space

34 / prediction

Because I think that's the next, in my mind, the next frontier is actual long-term memory, both for agents and then for agentic networks and a trustable, verifiable, I won't say privacy first, but privacy oriented way.

“Because I think that's the next, in my mind, the next frontier is actual long-term memory, both for agents and then for agentic networks and a trustable, verifiable, I won't say privacy first, but privacy oriented way.”
Speaker
Dharmesh Shah
Publisher
Latent Space
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