Episode 570: The Enterprisification of Agents

This week, we discuss Google's enterprise agent stack, what makes an agent an agent, and AI's biggest critic. Plus, Coté wants better vision.

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Think like a computer

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AI for None of Us

Matt Ray, but verify

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Rundown

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An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About the Agentic Moment

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Google Internal AI Adoption via Steve Yegge

Google builds elite team to close the coding gap with Anthropic

AI's biggest critic has lost the plot

From the GithubCopilot community on Reddit: Change to useage based billing

An update on GitHub availability

"Developer loyalty is at zero right now": Google doesn't care which AI coding tool you use

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OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO

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An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents

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