The Rebel Alliance

Application scope and user experience: Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy famously said: “No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else.” That applies with particular force to AI. The range of what agents can do — and the variety of industries, workflows, and real-world contexts they touch — is so vast that no single company can build the best solution for all of them. We see a near-infinite opportunity to rewrite the world using agentic AI as foundational infrastructure, and it will require many companies with focused effort.

Thinking a lot about this lately, especially around my own use. I want from using Anthropic models and tools exclusively a year ago to barely using them and instead using different models in different harnesses depending on the task at hand.

It’s very likely that I’m part of the minority of AI users in this case currently but I wonder how long this will become more common ground amongst the majority of users.