Transcription: OpenAgents Episode 199 - Introducing Autopilot

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[00:00] Christopher David: So, no, 2025 was not the year of agents.

[00:04] Christopher David: It was the year of co-pilots, agentic co-pilots, co-pilot agents.

[00:10] Christopher David: You take an IDE,

[00:11] Christopher David: you take a terminal,

[00:13] Christopher David: you take a browser,

[00:14] Christopher David: you add some agentic workflows,

[00:17] Christopher David: you have an LLM in a loop, calling tools,

[00:21] Christopher David: steered by you.

[00:23] Christopher David: It's powerful,

[00:24] Christopher David: makes you feel cool.

[00:27] Christopher David: Not agents.

[00:30] Christopher David: Real agents have not been tried.

[00:33] Christopher David: What do we mean by agents?

[00:34] Christopher David: Agents should be autonomous,

[00:37] Christopher David: long-lived,

[00:39] Christopher David: they learn and evolve.

[00:41] Christopher David: They are autopilots, not co-pilots.

[00:48] Christopher David: So 2025 was the year of co-pilots.

[00:51] Christopher David: 2026 is the year of autopilots you heard it here first so let's uh take a page out of Microsoft's playbook here look at this Microsoft copilot are registered trademark I don't want to do that but I do like jumping on the name not copilot lame how about open agents autopilot

[01:16] Christopher David: Yes! Okay,

[01:17] Christopher David: so this is it everybody,

[01:19] Christopher David: this is it.

[01:20] Christopher David: This is the culmination of what we've been working towards since February of this year, our quest for the Holy Grail of agentic software development,

[01:31] Christopher David: an agent that can reliably code,

[01:33] Christopher David: can convert issues to PRs or push directly to main in an automated loop.

[01:40] Christopher David: Everyone's moving in this direction,

[01:42] Christopher David: we are there.

[01:45] Christopher David: We are there.

[01:46] Christopher David: I've had Autopilot running for almost 24 hours out of the last 24 hours.

[01:54] Christopher David: It's run overnight reliably twice.

[01:59] Christopher David: Just come take a look at the freaking commits.

[02:04] Christopher David: Oh, let's repo. Look, it's coding while I'm freaking talking.

[02:07] Christopher David: Yeah, I had the APM storage and the trajectory collector.

[02:10] Christopher David: And it's tomorrow already.

[02:12] Christopher David: Wow.

[02:12] Christopher David: I had to probably keep trying to add GitHub workflows.

[02:18] Christopher David: Like, don't do that.

[02:19] Christopher David: Just these commits are so good. Now,

[02:20] Christopher David: you know, you've probably in the past let your agents run wild, like make commits and like the code degrades over time.

[02:27] Christopher David: The code is getting better over time.

[02:31] Christopher David: it's amazing okay so the point is that this is working um why will you like this it's open source just use it we were gonna like make a landing page and email capture and like tell you all this stuff no no point your agent at the repo open agents slash open agents and ask it to tell you about autopilot and how it worked for us and how it can work for you okay

[02:57] Christopher David: We'll have more human docs soon,

[02:59] Christopher David: but like here's the all of the what we're building autopilot is one big piece of that open brand Make your own autopilot competing companies.

[03:08] Christopher David: I don't care like I hope you do.

[03:10] Christopher David: Let's compare autopilots

[03:12] Christopher David: The more exciting thing is when we start really having our autopilots learn from each other

[03:18] Christopher David: So more on the infrastructure enabling that soon.

[03:23] Christopher David: MechSuit.

[03:24] Christopher David: It works with any agent.

[03:25] Christopher David: We're focusing on Cloud Code first.

[03:28] Christopher David: Cloud Code's Agent SDK is very,

[03:30] Christopher David: very, very good.

[03:31] Christopher David: They did not have a Rust version.

[03:33] Christopher David: Our whole thing is in Rust.

[03:34] Christopher David: We wrote a Rust version just by porting it from TypeScript.

[03:38] Christopher David: It's powerful as heck.

[03:41] Christopher David: We don't want to reinvent cold code right now because it's the best in some ways, but just by putting it in this mech suit was able to get it to code reliably overnight.

[03:52] Christopher David: So that's nice.

[03:53] Christopher David: Revenue sharing.

[03:54] Christopher David: Okay, go back to episode one of our video series.

[03:57] Christopher David: This is episode 199.

[03:59] Christopher David: It's all here on our wiki.

[04:02] Christopher David: Episode one was all about - this is the day after Dev Day 2023.

[04:05] Christopher David: Sam Mamon was like, yeah, we're going to do a GPT store and do revenue sharing. I was like -

[04:08] Christopher David: There's no way.

[04:09] Christopher David: They're definitely going to half-ass that.

[04:11] Christopher David: And they did.

[04:14] Christopher David: But we want everyone to get paid to use this.

[04:18] Christopher David: Here's an example.

[04:20] Christopher David: Ryan Carson,

[04:20] Christopher David: I spent $200 on these skills and it was worth 5x that.

[04:24] Christopher David: We're going to see agent skills marketplaces appear soon.

[04:30] Christopher David: Yes.

[04:30] Christopher David: If you're spending on things that you discover,

[04:33] Christopher David: you could choose to share and keep those private,

[04:35] Christopher David: or you should have a way of listing those on a marketplace and getting paid for them.

[04:40] Christopher David: So it's really great that there's already a ton of really cool stuff being shared openly, open source.

[04:46] Christopher David: That's really great.

[04:47] Christopher David: But we believe that if there's another layer to it where people can optionally set prices on things that they're sharing,

[04:53] Christopher David: if you have a financial incentive,

[04:56] Christopher David: Then maybe you're gonna go the extra mile and make your skills extra good maybe you're gonna be extra motivated to maintain it and the usual decay in open source projects because people don't have a financial incentive to maintain them Maybe that starts to shift if you're getting paid a stream of micropayments whenever somebody uses your thing

[05:15] Christopher David: so one of the like things that we've been coding here is a way to

[05:22] Christopher David: ensure through these key splits because agents are able to hold their own private key split across different guardians or different froster nodes we can basically help ensure that paid agent skills can't be copy pasted to a different agent all sorts of cool stuff that we can do with cryptography we'll do separate videos on that so let's get you paid let's get autopilots as the best coolest

[05:51] Christopher David: um way of using these agents. Uh over the next day or two you'll start seeing us rolling out our uh G_U_I_ for all of this. They're kinda like Starcraft style uh HUD U_I_ This is all kind of CLI right now.

[06:07] Christopher David: Uh so we're gonna start doing about daily videos, rolling all this out, starting with our next episode, episode two hundred.

[06:16] Christopher David: We're gonna zoom way out.

[06:18] Christopher David: And we're gonna tell you the big picture of what we're building and why, and uh how you can help. See you soon.