About this Concept
Agents
AI systems that can plan, use tools, and carry out multi-step tasks.
Trend this week
of conversation
8 of 8 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.
12quoted moments6episodes5podcasts discussing this topic
A closer read
- What changed
- Its share rose from 8.7% to 15.4%, with evidence across 12 podcasts.
- Where it showed up
- It appeared in episodes including “How to Decide What Work AI Should Do for You: The AI Deputization Audit” and “Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban...”.
- How to read it
- 6 cited episodes from 5 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 12 podcasts in the full analysis.
Podcast moments from the week
Moments are grouped by episode so repeated excerpts from one conversation do not look like separate sources.
The AI Daily Brief
How to Decide What Work AI Should Do for You: The AI Deputization Audit
“computer use agents that click the same screens you do means that that might no longer be a problem.”
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The Cognitive Revolution
Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban the Chinese Models He Uses
“I think like what we are releasing today is called Lindy teammate. It is an AI employee that lives in your Slack, connects to all of your tools, accumulates your entire teams context. And it's really like a team scaffold. I think like AI right now is in the middle of making th...”
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Report this moment“I'm very bullish on this like agentic management approach because you have an actual agent which has its own memory.”
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Report this moment“That's like, I think it's like 20 or 30% more token efficient than JSON. JSON is actually not that token efficient. So Toon works better. It's 20 or 30%. So this works. This is less important for like memory agents, but it's just, I recommend everyone like makes their agent us...”
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AI Inside
The AI Race Just Moved the Goal Posts
“for all the stuff you want to do to create an agent and do all that, it's not really there”
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The AI Daily Brief
The AI Agent Platform for Everyone
“The promise of AI agents might finally be becoming a reality.”
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Report this moment“the agent likely will be good enough to handle a wide range of work tasks end to end.”
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Report this moment“this is currently the best mainstream interface for agentic AI that I've seen from any leading company”
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AI For Humans
Zuck Wants Superintelligence. Do People Even Want AI?
“Told his agent to go get it. The agent realized, oh, the class is full, but it did not give up. It was full dog with a bone mode. It found a vulnerability in the software, in the API of the booking system that allowed it to cancel someone else's booking and put its owner right...”
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The AI Native Dev
The Background Check You Can't Run on an AI Agent
“'Cause the feature and the bug are the same. And the fundamental question is, how do I know that an agent is performing actions aligned with the intent of whoever sent that agent to do something?”
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Report this moment“Exactly, right? And so that is— Makes it snappy. Makes it snappy, but that would be deeply unaligned with what the actual user wants that agent to do. And so that's finally a question of identity and access. And the difference between what we've had and what with agents is I a...”
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Report this moment“Or another way to think is, do I trust an agent to be able to perform this action?”
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