The Agent Era: Building Software Beyond Chat with Box CEO Aaron Levie

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of agents as primary users in enterprise software with Box CEO Aaron Levie.

Erik Torenberg, Steve Sinofsky, and Martin Casado speak to Aaron Levie, CEO at Box, about what happens to enterprise software when agents become the primary users. They discuss why coding agents succeed where other knowledge work agents struggle, what abstraction layers mean for the workforce, and how data access and systems of record must change in an agent-first world.

People in this episode

Hosts: Erik Torenberg, Steve Sinofsky, Martin Casado

Guest: Aaron Levie

Topics covered

• enterprise software
• coding agents
• knowledge work
• data access
• systems of record
• agent-first world

Keywords

• enterprise software
• agents
• coding
• data access
• workforce
• systems of record
• agent-first

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Box

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