Ex-Instagram Engineer Reveals Why AI Agents Only Work 40% of the Time. Jordi Pellat, CTO @ara

Описание: Welcome back to The Agentic Project! We're joined by Jordi Pellat, CTO at Ara and former engineer at Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat, across nearly 10 years in Silicon Valley, to reveal what actually works when you're building AI-powered products—and the brutal mistakes killing most AI implementations.

Jordi built Instagram's business accounts feature (still live today), worked on Facebook's failed crypto project Libra, and now competes against Google Meet and Zoom with Ara's AI-powered async video platform. He's deploying code 10 times per day with AI agents, but he's also watching 60% of AI tasks fail spectacularly, and he knows exactly why.

*In this insightful conversation, you'll learn:*

Why AI agents only solve bugs correctly 40% of the time without strong feedback loops.
The three-week Facebook deployment cycle now takes three days with Cursor and AI agents.
How to use AI "genies" for 15x speed on 20% of tasks instead of 2x on everything.
The peanut butter sandwich test that reveals if your AI prompts will actually work.
Why longer tasks make AI exponentially less reliable and how to break them down properly.
Why GDPR compliance isn't blocking AI innovation as much as everyone claims in Europe.
How AI classifiers replaced $15K data science projects with instant LLM-powered solutions.
Why Europe has the talent to compete but lacks the founder ecosystem.
The distillation strategy for turning expensive LLM calls into cheap custom classifiers.
Why optimizing for engagement with AI reinvents addiction and should be killed immediately.

Whether you're a technical founder implementing AI in production, an engineer trying to actually ship with agents instead of just playing with demos, or a European startup questioning if you can compete without moving to San Francisco, this episode delivers the unfiltered technical reality of building with AI in 2025.


Check out Ara (async video meetings): https://arameet.co/?utm_source=theage...
Connect with Jordi on LinkedIn: [  / jordi-pellat  ](  / jordiferrer  )