Still the autocomplete era of enterprise automation — but not for long, say VCs
timshi_ai · x · 2026-10-28
Tim Shi (AI founder) replied to a16z's Sara Guo, who argued we remain in the autocomplete / early Claude Code era of enterprise workflow automation, but not for long. Shi's counterpoint asks whether the bottleneck is diffusion of capability into enterprises or the capability itself — pointing at whether frontier model improvements or enterprise adoption speed gates the next leap in agentic workflows.
Related event: Investors debate how long enterprise automation stays in autocomplete era(2 posts)→
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