45% of our AI spend goes to persistent agents, says Dylan Field, praising Perplexity
AravSrinivas · x · 2026-11-12
Dylan Field says persistent agents are the next unlock of AI usage — 45% of his team's AI spend now goes to them. He criticizes Claude Tags and OpenAI's Slack agent as weak, and says they primarily use Perplexity Computer, whose multi-model harness he finds superior. Perplexity CEO Arav Srinivas amplified the take.
More from coding & agent
- Riveter V2 launches: describe any dataset and it researches the live web to return structured data — ycombinator · 2026-11-12
- Nous hackathon entry Mote lets Hermes render, inspect, and fix its own documents — kristoph · 2026-11-12
- Hero's Journey: open-source six-step AI short-film workflow, free to fork — neuroform · 2026-11-12
- Mote: a single executable that turns Markdown into Word, PPT and PDF for agents — kristoph · 2026-11-12
- xAI ships Grok Bot 1.0: AI teammates that join meetings and work in Slack — soleio · 2026-11-12
- Ten gems from Diogo's Code Summit talk: RLHF is part of the problem, software is back — TheTuringPost · 2026-11-12