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Chris Slovak is Global Field CTO at Unframe, according to the show notes.
“Global Field CTO at Unframe”
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Chris Slovak
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Slovak says agentic systems can reason across multiple systems without one aggregated data source, provided they have context and semantic linking.
“they can reason like a human can across multiple systems, so long as there's context and semantic linking.”
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Slovak says he began his tech career working on SOAP APIs at Yahoo, which he describes as rigid and heavily documented.
“I got started in tech working on soap APIs at Yahoo, right? Super rigid, super documented, you know, APIs.”
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Slovak says SOAP APIs gave way to the more flexible REST APIs, the programmatic web.
“And then that's given way to rest, which is a little bit more flexible, the programmatic web, if you will.”
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Slovak says agent-to-agent communication and MCP-style protocols are rising, with agents asking other agents for information.
“You're seeing the rise of mCPS and agent to agent communications.”
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Slovak says he has sold software-as-a-service solutions for about twenty years under a model of demonstrating features and leaving customers to build.
“I've been selling software solutions, SAS, for 20 years, and the model is pretty much let me show you all the features.”
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Slovak says building software in-house is not cheap because maintenance and the talent needed are expensive.
“And everyone will tell you like, building is cheap, it is not at all, it's the maintenance that's expensive, right?”
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Slovak says nine-to-twelve-month projects costing millions of dollars cannot be allowed to fail, whereas two-week projects can.
“Nine to twelve month projects that are costing millions of dollars cannot fail. It's too much of an investment to fail.”
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Slovak asks whether a system that is consistently about ten percent off is good enough to make a decision, and argues that usually it is.
“if the answer that you're getting from a system is consistent, but consistently ten off, is a ten gap good enough to make a decision?”
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Slovak says the aging boomer generation holds experience that is not written down, and that a context layer can help capture it for agents.
“the boomer generation is aging. They have tremendous wealth of experience and knowledge that, like, unfortunately, like, probably isn't written down somewhere.”
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Slovak says he borrowed the idea of T-shaped versus I-shaped people from a former CEO, and uses it to describe agents that share context across departments.
“I call them T people. I stole this from my old CEO, so I got to give him a shout out.”
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