She Built Facebook's First Assistant. Now She's Betting Against Full Autonomy | Shivani Poddar, Wajo

Podcast: Solo Founders · Solo Founders

Opublikowano: 2026-10-14

Shivani Poddar led engineering on Google DeepMind's autonomous coding agent. Then she went solo to build Fo — the personal agent whose viral launch admitted what no AI lab will: AI often can't finish the job alone, so her agent hires vetted humans and picks up the phone itself. A decade of building assistants at Alexa, Meta, and DeepMind, distilled into the sharpest product thesis of the agent era — plus her playbook for building a founding team without a co-founder. Topics covered: - Why every AI agent demo falls apart at the last mile ("the captcha monkey prob...