The good, the bad, and the future of AI agents
Summary
This episode delves into the capabilities and future of AI agents with Anthropic's David Hershey, focusing on the new Claude Sonnet 4.5 model. It highlights Sonnet 4.5's breakthroughs in autonomous coding, including its ability to build a chat application over 30 hours, and explores unexpected industry adoptions like legal AI. The discussion also covers current limitations such as spatial awareness, the challenges of integration, and how Anthropic views the evolution of human-AI collaboration.Episode description
This is Hayden Field, senior AI reporter at The Verge and your Thursday episode guest host. Today, I’m talking with David Hershey, who leads the applied AI team at Anthropic. I wanted to have David on because earlier this week, Anthropic released a brand-new AI model called Claude Sonnet 4.5 that’s been making waves.
So I wanted to sit down with David, who spends a lot of time testing out what modes like Claude Sonnet 4.5 can and can’t do, to ask him where we are on this promise of AI agents, and also what the path forward looks like as agentic technology progresses.
Links:
- Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 in latest bid for AI agents | The Verge
- ChatGPT’s built-in Buy Now button has arrived | The Verge
- OpenAI really wants you to start your day with ChatGPT Pulse | The Verge
- Anthropic’s Claude AI is playing Pokémon | The Verge
- AI agents are science fiction not yet ready for primetime | The Verge
- Agents are the future AI companies promise and need | The Verge
- Amazon is betting on agents to win the AI race | Decoder
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Our producers are Kate Cox and Nick Statt. Our editor is Ursa Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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