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Agent orchestration is so two-years…

You.com CTO Saahil Jain argues that heavy agent orchestration layers are outdated as modern AI models improve at long-horizon tasks, and that the 2026 competitive edge will come from information retrieval, unique data, and end-to-end evaluation.

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Ryan welcomes Saahil Jain, CTO of You.com, to discuss why building agents with a 2024 mindset is a mistake as modern models improve at long-horizon tasks, why heavy orchestration layers can hurt model performance more than help it, and why the 2026 competitive edge actually comes from information retrieval and unique data paired with end-to-end evaluation.

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