Working Notes on Agent Systems/Brad Zhang

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We will continue to build more AI products and accumulate experience in practice. Howev...

We will continue to build more AI products and accumulate experience in practice. However, AI has only been around for 2 or 3 years, and there are only a few AI products that ar...

July 20, 2025 · 1 min read

We will continue to build more AI products and accumulate experience in practice.

However, AI has only been around for 2 or 3 years, and there are only a few AI products that are truly successful.

There are very few pure AI companies with more than 100 people.

Most of them are small teams of 10 to 50 people, and there are not so many opportunities to practice and learn.

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