AI7/10
Aaron Levie Says Agents Will Use Software 100 Times More Than People
Box CEO Aaron Levie argues AI agents will use software far more than humans, making core platforms for data, security and workflow orchestration more important. He says platforms that act as guardrails for agents have a large opportunity, and he quotes Box's reaccelerated growth tied to unstructured data needs.
Original post · 1 min read
AI agents will use software 100X more than people ever did. Even as interfaces begin to fade into the background as you primarily interact with agents, those agents still need many of the core primitives that people have used.
In fact, in many ways these core primitives become even more important when agents can take destructive actions in our systems or where the context they’re accessing with make or break the workflow. This will be true of where you house your CRM or ERP or structured or unstructured data platforms.
The platforms that can best act as the security layer and guardrails for agents, manage the data for agents and people, and orchestrate the business logic for workflows have a huge opportunity right now. This is true for brand new startups as well as existing platforms that can move fast enough.
In fact, in many ways these core primitives become even more important when agents can take destructive actions in our systems or where the context they’re accessing with make or break the workflow. This will be true of where you house your CRM or ERP or structured or unstructured data platforms.
The platforms that can best act as the security layer and guardrails for agents, manage the data for agents and people, and orchestrate the business logic for workflows have a huge opportunity right now. This is true for brand new startups as well as existing platforms that can move fast enough.
TBPN @tbpnBox CEO @levie says AI has been “unequivocally” a net positive for software.
“You look at infrastructure providers—the Cloudflares of the world—totally on fire, because agents need sandboxes, they need compute, they need network, they need gateways. Great business.”
“For us, we have reaccelerated growth far past our internal plans because it turns out that enterprises need core systems to be able to manage their unstructured data.”
“Agents need to be able to work with that unstructured data to make decisions or move information through a workflow—whether it’s all of your contracts, your res…
♥ 312 · ⟲ 29 · 👁 110.6KView on X ↗
