[raw_anon_1111]

And if you can point to thousands, then I can literally 100x for all the things that failed. You only have to go back 25 years in tech to see all of the failures - or YC companies that IPO’d more recently that collectively have a -49% return while the broader market has seen record gains

https://medium.com/@Arakunrin/the-post-ipo-performance-of-y-...

It ends up for instance that Steve Jobs was right about Dropbox - it is a feature not a product.

[pavelai]

Ok. We are talking about different things. There are fundamental rules which make technologies to strive or disappear. But there are other fundamental rules for products, features, etc. So you talk about products and I talk about technology.

YCombinator is about products, not technologies, so their example is not suitable here. Agents is a technology. They have fundamental advantage over premade software. They are already here and they are doing valuable work. They will stay for the near future. You can argue against reasons to use particular agents or particular products built around them, or particular features, but not against the whole technology.

The technology is verified, we need to find the way to make it safer and more sustainable. This would require to solve many technical tasks: build safeguards, create eco-friendly energy production, solve explainability, build physical infrastructure, develop new technical standards, etc.