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Bret Taylor of Sierra on AI agents, outcome-based pricing, and the OpenAI board

10 Mar 2026 44 published claims 2 attributable people

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01 / recommendation

Yeah, it's like you almost want to put everything in a file system that looks like source code, not because that's the only way these agents can work, but actually it's quite an efficient way to get a mix of context and random access memory.

“Yeah, it's like you almost want to put everything in a file system that looks like source code, not because that's the only way these agents can work, but actually it's quite an efficient way to get a mix of context and random access memory.”
Speaker
Bret Taylor
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

09 / belief

I think not only am I somewhat skeptical that there will only be two companies in the world, I actually think one of the main things impeding adoption of AI is the lack of existence of all those other companies.

“I think not only am I somewhat skeptical that there will only be two companies in the world, I actually think one of the main things impeding adoption of AI is the lack of existence of all those other companies.”
Speaker
Bret Taylor
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

10 / belief

All of a sudden, not only can you afford to provide a great customer experience to more people, even less profitable customers or in lower-margin businesses, which I think is very exciting.

“All of a sudden, not only can you afford to provide a great customer experience to more people, even less profitable customers or in lower-margin businesses, which I think is very exciting.”
Speaker
Bret Taylor
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

11 / belief

I think at the end of the day, when you're building a business, especially one that's in hyper growth, which successful businesses in tech tend to be, if you are too clever and austere, and going back to your point about Silicon Valley culture is all being the same, there are examples of companies that really innovated in culture.

“I think at the end of the day, when you're building a business, especially one that's in hyper growth, which successful businesses in tech tend to be, if you are too clever and austere, and going back to your point about Silicon Valley culture is all being the same, there are examples of companies that really innovated in culture.”
Speaker
Bret Taylor
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

12 / belief

The way we think about context and how that context is shared so that the agent that's orchestrating it actually understands what's behind all these APIs and why and the history will maybe look a little bit more like OpenClaw and less like MCP over time.

“The way we think about context and how that context is shared so that the agent that's orchestrating it actually understands what's behind all these APIs and why and the history will maybe look a little bit more like OpenClaw and less like MCP over time.”
Speaker
Bret Taylor
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

15 / belief

Going back to the first thing we were talking about, it's hard for me to not care about the elegance of the source code, which I think is an impediment to my fully realizing being a software engineer in this new world.

“Going back to the first thing we were talking about, it's hard for me to not care about the elegance of the source code, which I think is an impediment to my fully realizing being a software engineer in this new world.”
Speaker
Bret Taylor
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

18 / belief

I think that'll be true for some software, particularly developer platforms and things like that that are already being consumed and purchased by other engineers.

“I think that'll be true for some software, particularly developer platforms and things like that that are already being consumed and purchased by other engineers.”
Speaker
Bret Taylor
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

21 / belief

We talked about this a bit in our annual letter in the context of agentic commerce, where, again, I think people are trying to pitch too much of the end state of fully autonomous, the robots just choosing a few.

“We talked about this a bit in our annual letter in the context of agentic commerce, where, again, I think people are trying to pitch too much of the end state of fully autonomous, the robots just choosing a few.”
Speaker
John Collison
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

27 / belief

I think the exciting part in our world is you're taking something that was just so expensive that people literally hid their phone numbers so people couldn't call them, and you're making it inexpensive and delightful.

“I think the exciting part in our world is you're taking something that was just so expensive that people literally hid their phone numbers so people couldn't call them, and you're making it inexpensive and delightful.”
Speaker
Bret Taylor
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

30 / belief

On one hand, I think I actually agree with the principle that one of the powerful parts about AI, with its ability to do text, do audio, and I'll say, I'm not sure how you qualify computer use, but you can call it a form of image recognition and manipulation.

“On one hand, I think I actually agree with the principle that one of the powerful parts about AI, with its ability to do text, do audio, and I'll say, I'm not sure how you qualify computer use, but you can call it a form of image recognition and manipulation.”
Speaker
Bret Taylor
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

31 / belief

Given the progress in math, I'm hopeful we have at least one moment of discovery that is inspiring, because I think a lot of the dialog around AI right now is economic opportunities, but also what could go wrong.

“Given the progress in math, I'm hopeful we have at least one moment of discovery that is inspiring, because I think a lot of the dialog around AI right now is economic opportunities, but also what could go wrong.”
Speaker
Bret Taylor
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

35 / prediction

" What would end up happening is a supervisor agent would observe your reasoning, say, "I think John should have actually looked up the policy here" and send it back with notes and say, "Actually, you're not allowed to make that decision.

“" What would end up happening is a supervisor agent would observe your reasoning, say, "I think John should have actually looked up the policy here" and send it back with notes and say, "Actually, you're not allowed to make that decision.”
Speaker
Bret Taylor
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

36 / evaluation

One of the challenges when you're offering either sales or service or customer experience to a really well-known brand is it's harder to ground it. It's actually easier when the internet has never heard of you and you want to make a well-grounded agent, it's actually pretty easy because there's no temptation from the LLMs to go off-script.

“One of the challenges when you're offering either sales or service or customer experience to a really well-known brand is it's harder to ground it. It's actually easier when the internet has never heard of you and you want to make a well-grounded agent, it's actually pretty easy because there's no temptation from the LLMs to go off-script.”
Speaker
Bret Taylor
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

37 / prediction

If you have an AI agent that is making sales for Stripe to small businesses, and I told you I will sell one-tenth the number of new Stripe GMV, however you value that, but I'll use one one-hundredth of the tokens, you probably wouldn't care.

“If you have an AI agent that is making sales for Stripe to small businesses, and I told you I will sell one-tenth the number of new Stripe GMV, however you value that, but I'll use one one-hundredth of the tokens, you probably wouldn't care.”
Speaker
Bret Taylor
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

39 / prediction

I think actually we will end up reimagining our companies with the benefit of AI, will we actually think of our companies as a collection of processes, have people responsible them with KPIs who can apply AI.

“I think actually we will end up reimagining our companies with the benefit of AI, will we actually think of our companies as a collection of processes, have people responsible them with KPIs who can apply AI.”
Speaker
Bret Taylor
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

40 / evaluation

" The answer is obviously yes, over some period of time. But it's really interesting because sometimes, I think the hard part of engineering is in the details, and code repos have very specific qualities.

“" The answer is obviously yes, over some period of time. But it's really interesting because sometimes, I think the hard part of engineering is in the details, and code repos have very specific qualities.”
Speaker
Bret Taylor
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

41 / preference

I'm not saying the code doesn't matter, but I've been trying to force myself to not care because I feel like I won't be a self-actualized software engineer in the future if I'm too precious about that artifact which used to be so central to me.

“I'm not saying the code doesn't matter, but I've been trying to force myself to not care because I feel like I won't be a self-actualized software engineer in the future if I'm too precious about that artifact which used to be so central to me.”
Speaker
Bret Taylor
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

42 / prediction

I think that we will end up with individual tech leads who, because of the existence of AI agents, will become even more important, where if you are a, I'll say, product engineer, I'm trying to find the right word for it—we might invent one—who has taste but didn't necessarily know CSS, who has infrastructure ability, meaning that you understand the basics of distributed systems and debugging, and you understand your customer very deeply.

“I think that we will end up with individual tech leads who, because of the existence of AI agents, will become even more important, where if you are a, I'll say, product engineer, I'm trying to find the right word for it—we might invent one—who has taste but didn't necessarily know CSS, who has infrastructure ability, meaning that you understand the basics of distributed systems and debugging, and you understand your customer very deeply.”
Speaker
Bret Taylor
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

43 / evaluation

We just did a great case study with SoFi, and I'm really proud that we raised their net promoter score by 33 points just because it's just so delightful.

“We just did a great case study with SoFi, and I'm really proud that we raised their net promoter score by 33 points just because it's just so delightful.”
Speaker
Bret Taylor
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

44 / evaluation

I don't know. It's interesting because if you look at the past few iterations of technology, you had the PC revolution, then you had the internet and the browser, then the smartphone came out and the tablet.

“I don't know. It's interesting because if you look at the past few iterations of technology, you had the PC revolution, then you had the internet and the browser, then the smartphone came out and the tablet.”
Speaker
Bret Taylor
Publisher
Cheeky Pint
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