Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen said within a year, the proliferation of AI bots will be routine.<\/p>\n
He foresees a world where 20 AI agents are managing 20 other subagents.<\/p>\n
The benefit of bots, Andreessen said, is that they don’t get angry or distracted.<\/p>\n
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen<\/a> says he sees several advantages to a world dominated by AI coding agents and bots.<\/p>\n “The bots never get frustrated with you,” Andreessen told Joe Rogan during a recent episode of Rogan’s “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, adding amid laughter that a bot “never gets drunk, never gets sick, never gets high” or files “HR complaints.”<\/p>\n Andreessen, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz, said that right now in Silicon Valley, the “state of the art” setup is to run roughly 20 bots at once. That way, the user doesn’t have to wait constantly to provide feedback.<\/p>\n “This is why people can’t go to sleep is because you’ve got 20 AI bots that are all as good as the best programmer in the world that are doing exactly what you tell them to do on every project you’ve ever wanted to do,” he said. “And they’re running 24\/7, and the only thing you have to do is be there every 10 minutes to be able to give them feedback on what they’re doing.”<\/p>\n Another huge benefit, Andreessen said, is that bots don’t get emotional about work. He described a scenario in which a human employee is angry after spending two weeks on a project, only to be told that the final result isn’t right and needs to be changed. After changing the project, the employee is then told that the first result was actually better, and they have to change it back.<\/p>\n “The guy gets pissed at you because he’s like, ‘I just wasted my time,'” Andreessen said. “The bot’s like, ‘No problem, no sweat, whatever you want, and we can try it 12 more times if you want.'”<\/p>\n The reality Andreessen described illustrates the extent to which advancements in AI coding tools, including Anthropic’s Claude<\/a> Code and OpenAI’s Codex, have fundamentally changed not only software engineers’ jobs but also their very existence, leading to workers keeping odd hours<\/a> and open laptops<\/a> as they try to keep up.<\/p>\n