No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups How Agentic AI is Transforming The Startup Landscape with Andrew Ng
1277 snips
Aug 21, 2025 
Andrew Ng, co-founder of Google Brain and Coursera, discusses the transformation of startups through agentic AI with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil. They delve into how AI is reshaping successful founder profiles and the vital role of small teams. Ng emphasizes the importance of coding skills for everyone in an organization and critiques the concept of 'vibe coding.' They also explore the future of AI in engineering, the need for adaptable leadership, and the potential for models to bootstrap themselves, all while navigating the startup landscape.
AI Snips
Chapters
Transcript
Episode notes
Agentic AI Is A Spectrum
- Andrew Ng defines "agentic AI" as a spectrum of degrees of agency rather than a binary label.
- He emphasizes focusing on building agentic capabilities instead of debating definitions.
Talent And Evals Trump Tech Gaps
- Ng identifies talent and disciplined error analysis with evals as the biggest barrier to deploying agentic workflows.
- He says teams that run systematic evals progress far faster than teams that try random experiments.
Capture Human Context Before Automating
- Interview and capture domain experts' external knowledge before automating their workflows.
- Use visual AI or avatars to record how people actually do tasks when knowledge is locked in heads.