Super Prompt: Building in the Era of AI Agents
In the era of agents, the exponential that matters most is human agency.
Agents lower the cost of building and operating while making scattered demand easier to reach. This enables a different kind of ambition. A company need not be venture-shaped. It can be founder-shaped: focused, durable, and capable of changing its founder’s life without changing the world.
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Super Prompt: Building in the Era of AI Agents
AI Agents at Work: Scaffold Required
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We review four clips from the Dwarkesh Patel Podcast with Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO. I highly recommend Dwarkesh’s show—technical & nerdy, but excellent.
Satya talks about scaffolding—the software wrapped around AI models to make them actually work.
So we speak with someone building that scaffolding: Neil McKechnie runs two AI-first startups as a CTO.
He discusses how he orchestrates up to twelve different language models—GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral, Cohere, Perplexity.
We discuss what it actually takes to build production systems with LLMs today—and what that reveals about the agent future we’re being pitched.
Dwarkesh's Podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/@DwarkeshPatel
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