Vesta CEO
@michael_yu explains why the secret to building reliable AI agents is giving them less freedom, not more:
"The key to making agents work in this space is you wanna make the tasks very small and atomic, and then there are far fewer degrees of freedom for the agent to mess it up."
"Every document that you get from a consumer, the agent is taking the first pass at reviewing it. A signed purchase contract has probably 50 to 100 fields that people are pulling off."
"I don't think people are yet in a place where they're like, 'We're gonna let the agent calculate the consumer's income by hand.' Very similar to how they actually don't let their humans calculate the income by hand. You use a spreadsheet and a very complicated calculator and set of rules."