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If AI Agents Can Do It Today, What's Left For Tomorrow? | Parag Agrawal , Parallel Web Systems

Sequoia Capital · Aug 29, 2026 · Industry Trends

Future AI agents will work reactively to events, not proactively on static tasks

“If there is something you can do today and it's worth doing and we still have GPUs available we'll just go do it, right?”

Parag Agrawal of Parallel Web Systems argues that the agentic future is event-driven: agents will exhaust today's known tasks immediately, and tomorrow's work will be triggered by other agents completing work, real-world changes (satellite imagery, customer signals), or web updates. The insight reframes the 'what's left for humans' question — the bottleneck shifts from task execution to event feeds that trigger new agentic work. Relevant for newsletter readers tracking how agentic architectures are being designed at the infrastructure layer.

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