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Some more indication: > “Just like how Bill [Gates] had this idea of Microsoft being a bunch of software developers building a bunch of software, I want our pl

by layer8 1y ago

Some more indication: > “Just like how Bill [Gates] had this idea of Microsoft being a bunch of software developers building a bunch of software, I want our platform, for any enterprise or any organization, to be able to be the thing they turn into their own agent factory,” said Parikh [the CoreAI team lead]. That Bill Gates analogy seems rather far-fetched, though.

bgwalter 1y ago
And the prompt engineers running the agents will be sitting in Bangalore. Or perhaps outsourced to Infosys. Microsoft under Gates at least produced real things. I wonder when Apple gets an Indian CEO to facilitate outsourcing.
- fragmede 1y ago
  It was the American CEO Tim Cook which spent some $250 billion investing in training in China, which is more than the Marshall plan (inflation adjusted) or the CHIPS act, for outsourcing the factories to China in which their products get produced.
  - coliveira 1y ago
    But that $250 billion gave them $3T in market cap, so it was a fantastic investment.
9dev 1y ago
That sounds horrible. Who wants that??
- radicalbyte 1y ago
  It sounds like the kind of plan which would come from the Xbox division.
- apexalpha 1y ago
  Someone who expect to make a lot of money selling said Agents.
jatins 1y ago
Had to read that sentence a couple of times -- what does it even mean? It's possible Verge may have butchered it
- layer8 1y ago
  The quote actually appears to be recited from an earlier Verge article [0]: > Parikh, who transformed Facebook engineering teams, now leads a transformation that he describes as building an AI “agent factory” for Microsoft’s customers. > ”I described this agent factory idea to Bill [Gates], not knowing that he and Paul [Allen] described Microsoft 50 years ago as the software factory,” Parikh says. “Just like how Bill had this idea of Microsoft being a bunch of software developers building a bunch of software, I want our platform, for any enterprise or any organization, to be able to be the thing they turn into their own agent factory.” [0] https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/672598/microsoft-ai-agent-factory-jay-parikh-interview https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/672598...
- DeepYogurt 1y ago
  No. Jay is an idiot.
- Nathanba 1y ago
  It means that Microsoft used to be a software company and it is now supposed to become a software factory company, meaning that it produces factories (=agents) that produce software. That seems like a good goal to have for them.
jcgrillo 1y ago
evidence of severely advanced brain rot
ksherlock 1y ago
Let's think about MicroSoft back in the 90s. There are no agent factories, whatever they are, but non-programmers are using Visual Basic, Excel, and Access to write their own software. Maybe throw in some ASP as well. (What if ClippyGPT had been available back in the day?) So thinking about that, if you ignore the buzzwords and squint, it kind of looks familiar. Of course, none of this has anything to do with GitHub. Will they ~~agentify~~ enshittify Visual Source Safe as well?

by layer8 1y ago

bgwalter 1y ago

And the prompt engineers running the agents will be sitting in Bangalore. Or perhaps outsourced to Infosys. Microsoft under Gates at least produced real things. I wonder when Apple gets an Indian CEO to facilitate outsourcing.

fragmede 1y ago
It was the American CEO Tim Cook which spent some $250 billion investing in training in China, which is more than the Marshall plan (inflation adjusted) or the CHIPS act, for outsourcing the factories to China in which their products get produced.
- coliveira 1y ago
  But that $250 billion gave them $3T in market cap, so it was a fantastic investment.

9dev 1y ago

That sounds horrible. Who wants that??

radicalbyte 1y ago
It sounds like the kind of plan which would come from the Xbox division.
apexalpha 1y ago
Someone who expect to make a lot of money selling said Agents.

jatins 1y ago

Had to read that sentence a couple of times -- what does it even mean? It's possible Verge may have butchered it

layer8 1y ago
The quote actually appears to be recited from an earlier Verge article [0]: > Parikh, who transformed Facebook engineering teams, now leads a transformation that he describes as building an AI “agent factory” for Microsoft’s customers. > ”I described this agent factory idea to Bill [Gates], not knowing that he and Paul [Allen] described Microsoft 50 years ago as the software factory,” Parikh says. “Just like how Bill had this idea of Microsoft being a bunch of software developers building a bunch of software, I want our platform, for any enterprise or any organization, to be able to be the thing they turn into their own agent factory.” [0] https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/672598/microsoft-ai-agent-factory-jay-parikh-interview https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/672598...
DeepYogurt 1y ago
No. Jay is an idiot.
Nathanba 1y ago
It means that Microsoft used to be a software company and it is now supposed to become a software factory company, meaning that it produces factories (=agents) that produce software. That seems like a good goal to have for them.

jcgrillo 1y ago

evidence of severely advanced brain rot

ksherlock 1y ago

Let's think about MicroSoft back in the 90s. There are no agent factories, whatever they are, but non-programmers are using Visual Basic, Excel, and Access to write their own software. Maybe throw in some ASP as well. (What if ClippyGPT had been available back in the day?) So thinking about that, if you ignore the buzzwords and squint, it kind of looks familiar. Of course, none of this has anything to do with GitHub. Will they ~~agentify~~ enshittify Visual Source Safe as well?