Transcription: OpenAgents Episode 170 - Commander

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[00:00] Christopher David: Let's imagine the year is 2030 and you've got your personal fleet of AI agents.

[00:05] Christopher David: What is that going to look and feel like?

[00:07] Christopher David: Maybe it'll feel a little bit like Tony Stark commanding Jarvis, beep boop bop, manipulating holograms, cool UIs.

[00:15] Christopher David: What is it not going to look like? It's not going to look like a fork of VS Code.

[00:20] Christopher David: Tony Stark does not use Microsoft products,

[00:23] Christopher David: so it wouldn't fork off from them. No.

[00:25] Christopher David: What's it going to look like?

[00:27] Christopher David: Less like VS Code,

[00:28] Christopher David: more like StarCraft.

[00:32] Christopher David: I like Kenneth.

[00:34] Christopher David: Good thinking.

[00:35] Christopher David: Who's building the StarCraft UI for managing AI agents?

[00:38] Christopher David: Yeah.

[00:39] Christopher David: So six months ago I said, yeah, we are.

[00:42] Christopher David: Then we had like a little earlier version with some panes you could move around. Started to feel a little futuristic.

[00:49] Christopher David: Greg says,

[00:50] Christopher David: God, the future of programming is so weird.

[00:52] Christopher David: Basically a bunch of random floating AR windows looking at code patches and live environments for executing stuff with voice and neural outputs orchestrating multiple agents to perform tasks at higher and higher levels of abstraction.

[01:02] Christopher David: Yeah.

[01:03] Christopher David: Plus the StarCraft HUD and key bindings for groups of agents and cool macros. Yeah.

[01:07] Christopher David: Yeah.

[01:10] Christopher David: Good analysis from Dax, blah, blah, blah.

[01:15] Christopher David: Agents will soon get to the point where they are good enough that you can confidently manage multiple at a time or go fully AFK and let your agents work async. It should feel more like StarCraft where you're commanding multiple agents doing multiple things, hotkeys swapping between agent groups,

[01:29] Christopher David: seeing highlights on a futuristic dashboard so you see only the needed info to command your fleet without getting bogged down in details and debugging. Yes, we are building this.

[01:38] Christopher David: Power overwhelming.

[01:42] Christopher David: Okay.

[01:44] Christopher David: So we're going to resume our building in public series.

[01:48] Christopher David: We built basically the economic engine that's going to go into all of this called agent payments.

[01:53] Christopher David: This is going to let us discover actual market forces of like what people are actually willing to pay for agents minus the subsidies of large VC companies,

[02:02] Christopher David: you know, spending hundreds of millions of dollars distorting price signals.

[02:05] Christopher David: Okay.

[02:05] Christopher David: We want to know what actual price signals are for agents in the Bitcoinized open protocol economy.

[02:11] Christopher David: economy.

[02:12] Christopher David: I'll leave you with a quote for like one thing that's important about what we're doing here from Michael Saylor.

[02:20] Christopher David: The AIs are coming.

[02:21] Christopher David: The AIs don't get bank accounts.

[02:23] Christopher David: You don't get credit cards.

[02:24] Christopher David: The AIs artificial economy will be built on digital capital,

[02:27] Christopher David: digital property.

[02:28] Christopher David: It'll be a hundred trillion dollar economy.

[02:31] Christopher David: It will be built on Bitcoin.

[02:34] Christopher David: I'm going to steal an idea from Keon from Stecker News.

[02:38] Christopher David: who talks about Bitcoin as a mechanism of coordination.

[02:43] Christopher David: Bitcoin, aka price,

[02:45] Christopher David: like money,

[02:46] Christopher David: can help people find signal where otherwise there is noise.

[02:52] Christopher David: And in a world of 30 different agent frameworks and 30 different AI editors and a try my coding agent, there's a whole bunch of noise,

[03:01] Christopher David: not a lot of signal. Signal will emerge from price in a market. So at the core of...

[03:08] Christopher David: What we're building with open agents is a market marketplace.

[03:10] Christopher David: Go back to episode one of this series I did after Dev Day presentation in 2023.

[03:16] Christopher David: The core idea was always like an agent marketplace.

[03:19] Christopher David: Open money,

[03:20] Christopher David: open protocols,

[03:21] Christopher David: open compute.

[03:21] Christopher David: We now have with the huge swell of interest in open protocols like model context protocol and now A2A from Google,

[03:29] Christopher David: a lot of people starting to speak the language of open protocols and interoperability,

[03:33] Christopher David: but there's still this missing mechanism called price.

[03:36] Christopher David: Price enables coordination at scale.

[03:38] Christopher David: We humans need to coordinate,

[03:40] Christopher David: so we're not all...

[03:41] Christopher David: building the same different agent abstractions over and over and over and able to take advantage of like the long tail.

[03:48] Christopher David: What is this effect?

[03:49] Christopher David: I'm going to end it there because look at this beautiful effect.

[03:52] Christopher David: Alright, so we're building this. It's called Commander.

[03:55] Christopher David: You should be able to spin up agents as easy as like hitting hot keys,

[03:59] Christopher David: you know, click,

[04:00] Christopher David: drag,

[04:01] Christopher David: command and we're going to do a video every day this week and probably next week aiming to get something cool in your hands in about two weeks to actually

[04:09] Christopher David: Command some agents in a futuristic sci-fi interface.

[04:12] Christopher David: See you soon.