The Problem with AI Agents No One is Talking About | Yutori, Abhishek Das

Most AI agents don't actually work. Abhishek Das, co-founder & co-CEO of Yutori, argues that the agent industry has quietly normalized unreliability. Even at 90% accuracy per step, errors compound fast across a 10, 20, or 50-step workflow, and the whole thing breaks. Backed by Fei-Fei Li and Jeff Dean, Abhishek is pushing back on that normalization. In this conversation, he lays out what it takes to ship agents that actually work on the first try, why taste matters more than code in the LLM era, and what Grad-CAM taught him about building "proof of work" into AI. 00:00 Find the Dopamine of Building 01:37 IIT Roorkee and SDS Labs 03:26 The Last Generation to Use a Browser 05:22 Stop Normalizing Broken Agents - What Separates Real Agents From Demos 07:30 The 80/20 rule 08:42 How to build taste - the weekly dogfooding ritual 09:27 Why Reliability Matters More Than Raw Performance EO stands for Entrepreneur& Opportunities. As we're looking to feature more inspiring stories of entrepreneurs all over the world, don't hesitate to contact us at partner@eoeoeo.net LinkedIn | @EO STUDIO X | @eostudi0

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Released: May 4, 2026
Duration: 12m
Channel: EO Studio
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Most AI agents don't actually work. Abhishek Das, co-founder & co-CEO of Yutori, argues that the agent industry has quietly normalized unreliability. Even at 90% accuracy per step, errors compound fast across a 10, 20, or 50-step workflow, and the whole thing breaks. Backed by Fei-Fei Li and Jeff Dean, Abhishek is pushing back on that normalization. In this conversation, he lays out what it takes to ship agents that actually work on the first try, why taste matters more than code in the LLM era, and what Grad-CAM taught him about building "proof of work" into AI. 00:00 Find the Dopamine of Building 01:37 IIT Roorkee and SDS Labs 03:26 The Last Generation to Use a Browser 05:22 Stop Normalizing Broken Agents - What Separates Real Agents From Demos 07:30 The 80/20 rule 08:42 How to build taste - the weekly dogfooding ritual 09:27 Why Reliability Matters More Than Raw Performance EO stands for Entrepreneur& Opportunities. As we're looking to feature more inspiring stories of entrepreneurs all over the world, don't hesitate to contact us at partner@eoeoeo.net LinkedIn | @EO STUDIO X | @eostudi0

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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of EO Studio, featuring EO Studio, The Problem with AI Agents No One is Talking About | Yutori, Abhishek Das explores why unreliable AI web agents fail—and how to build better Most “do anything on the web” agents fail because small per-step error rates compound into very low end-to-end success on long, multi-step workflows.

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