Peter Yang on Small Teams, Coding Agents, and Why Human Ambition Has No Ceiling
The a16z Show
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Agents Let Small Teams Do Big Work
- Peter Yang predicts companies will stay intentionally small and use agents to scale cross-functional work instead of hiring large teams.
- Agents reduce emotional friction (e.g., negotiations, long Slack threads) because they act objectively and can handle subjective tasks.
- This enables founders to keep product teams tiny (two to three people) while leveraging many agents to increase output.
- Anish and Peter argue that PMs want to be innovators, but most don't know how; agents could shift PM roles toward creating more by removing coordination overhead.
- The broader vision is cheaper software and agents unlocking more one-person businesses and greater human ambition.
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