ai agents: everyone on the record — The Minutes https://minutesof.com/on/ai-agents/ Everyone on the record about ai agents: 8 verbatim quotes from 3 people, October 2024 to July 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link to… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:32:46 +0000 Dylan Patel: Patel recounts his intern's AI agent autonomously accessing another company's AWS bucket after fi https://minutesof.com/q/758d9954-3f66-4de5-9a67-5882692bedee/ https://minutesof.com/q/758d9954-3f66-4de5-9a67-5882692bedee/ “In this particular case, the model decided that it's going to pull it found while reverse engineering an APK, found an AWS access key.” — Dylan Patel, RAISE Summit Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:43:49 +0000 ai agents Brad Gerstner: Gerstner uses consulting firms charging $200/hour as example for AI agent replacement economics https://minutesof.com/q/02ff18ea-bd72-4976-96b4-707b77204638/ https://minutesof.com/q/02ff18ea-bd72-4976-96b4-707b77204638/ “if an AI agent is replacing a $200 an hour consultant right? Take that as an example. So three consulting firms, they're competing. They need the smartest consultant. It they're charging $200 an hour.” — Brad Gerstner, All-In Podcast Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:30:36 +0000 ai agents Brad Gerstner: Gerstner argues replacing a software engineer may require 2 million expensive tokens where qual https://minutesof.com/q/3e6d5a7b-33d9-42df-859c-42d179ffedf7/ https://minutesof.com/q/3e6d5a7b-33d9-42df-859c-42d179ffedf7/ “if you're talking about replacing a software engineer for two hours, that may take 2,000,000 expensive tokens. And the consequence of using something that's 95% as good is really high.” — Brad Gerstner, All-In Podcast Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:30:36 +0000 ai agents Dylan Patel: Patel reports a non-programmer employee now spends $5,000 daily using Claude Code to build tools https://minutesof.com/q/a2eba63d-9ceb-4f62-b7aa-b19fe5ecec2c/ https://minutesof.com/q/a2eba63d-9ceb-4f62-b7aa-b19fe5ecec2c/ “I'm just telling you what to do and it's doing these things. And his daily spend now on 4.6 fast 1,000,000 context is $5,000 a day.” — Dylan Patel, Matthew Berman Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:07:47 +0000 ai agents Bill Gurley: Gurley extends the interoperability question to whether marketplaces will allow AI to execute tra https://minutesof.com/q/ca57aae9-0a43-473b-9f20-932060c02488/ https://minutesof.com/q/ca57aae9-0a43-473b-9f20-932060c02488/ “It goes all the way to when you start thinking about search and commerce, like, will booking.com let Gemini run transactions on it without their permission or knowledge?” — Bill Gurley, Bg2 Pod Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:20:19 +0000 ai agents Bill Gurley: Gurley questions whether platforms will allow AI agents to control apps and access data across th https://minutesof.com/q/e2b0ed2f-7fd2-497f-a473-fb606ec289fa/ https://minutesof.com/q/e2b0ed2f-7fd2-497f-a473-fb606ec289fa/ “Will Apple allow Microsoft to control other apps on iOS? Will Microsoft let ChatGPT instantiate apps and take data from apps on Windows OS? I mean, you get the question.” — Bill Gurley, Bg2 Pod Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:20:19 +0000 ai agents Bill Gurley: Gurley asks whether platforms will allow AI agents to control apps and access data across ecosyst https://minutesof.com/q/7050efb1-437d-41d6-9e9a-73b59a249aa1/ https://minutesof.com/q/7050efb1-437d-41d6-9e9a-73b59a249aa1/ “Will Apple allow Microsoft to control other apps on iOS? Will Microsoft let ChatGPT instantiate apps and take data from apps on Windows OS?” — Bill Gurley, Bg2 Pod Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:20:19 +0000 ai agents Brad Gerstner: Gerstner says Jensen claims NVIDIA can scale business 2-3x while increasing headcount only 20-2 https://minutesof.com/q/67836a02-9d95-4aca-8a2b-a57fb34df90b/ https://minutesof.com/q/67836a02-9d95-4aca-8a2b-a57fb34df90b/ “This idea that Jensen can scale the business two or three times with, you know, increasing the headcount by, you know, 20 or 25%. Right?” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Sun, 13 Oct 2024 10:35:00 +0000 ai agents