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Microsoft’s Vision for an Internet Made for Agents With CTO Kevin Scott (Best of the Pod)

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Microsoft’s Vision for an Internet Made for Agents With CTO Kevin Scott (Best of the Pod)

AI & I

Aug 12
AI & I

AI & I

Aug 12
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In 2025, Kevin Scott bet that the agentic web would be the next big thing in AI. The Microsoft CTO argued that for agents to be genuinely useful, they'd need to be able to take action on our behalf—which would mean giving them access to the same sprawl of ...

Highlights

The episode examines how AI is moving from generating responses to carrying out useful work across connected digital systems.
00:00
Stay curious and use tools that work for you
01:44
AI is evolving from scaling models to building agents
02:50
AI’s capabilities exceed its usefulness
04:36
The agentic web depends on open, composable protocols
09:41
Open standards make agent permissions safer.
12:12
Innovation and security can reinforce each other
15:39
Craftsmanship remains important as tools evolve
20:57
The best agents understand specific user problems.
25:45
AI agents turn complex tasks into asynchronous workflows

Chapters

Start
00:00
Introduction
01:44
The race to close the "capability overhang"
02:49
How agents will evolve into practical, useful tools
04:31
The role Kevin sees Microsoft playing in the agent ecosystem
06:48
How robust security measures can coexist with open ecosystems
12:05
Kevin's philosophy on being a craftsman in the age of agents
15:39
How the landscape of software development agents will evolve
20:52
The future of agentic workflows
25:33

Transcript

Dan Shipper: You're someone who I think cares a lot about the craft of things. One of the knocks on using agents for coding is it gets rid of some of that feeling or something like that. How do you feel about that? Kevin Scott: I love the fact that my peo...