Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen says he believes there are several benefits to a world dominated by AI coding agents and bots.
On a recent episode of Rogan’s podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, Andreessen told Joe Rogan that “bots will never get mad at you,” adding amidst laughter that bots “will never get drunk, sick, high,” or “file a complaint with human resources.”
Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, said Silicon Valley currently has about 20 bots running simultaneously in a “state-of-the-art” setup. This way, users don’t have to constantly wait to provide feedback.
“People are losing sleep because there are 20 AI bots that are as good as the best programmers in the world, doing exactly what they’re told to do on every project they’ve ever wanted to do,” he said. “And they operate 24/7, and the only thing you have to do is be there every 10 minutes so you can give them feedback on what they’re doing.”
Another big advantage is that bots are less emotional about their work, Andreessen said. He described a scenario where a human employee spends two weeks on a project and then becomes angry when told that the final result is incorrect and needs to be changed. After making a change to a project, the employee is told that the original result was actually better and should be reverted.
“When a guy gets mad at you, it’s like, ‘I wasted my time,'” Andreessen says. “The bot is like, ‘No problem, no hassle, you can try whatever you want 12 more times.'”
Andreessen’s reality shows that advances in AI coding tools like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex are fundamentally changing not just the jobs but the very existence of software engineers, leading to workers working irregular hours and opening their laptops to catch up.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said during the company’s recent quarterly earnings call that he foresees a world with “billions” of AI agents.
“So we’re going to grow into it, but it’s going to have billions of agents, and those billions of agents are all going to use the tool,” Huang said. “And those tools will be like PCs.” Just as we humans use PCs today, in the future there will be agents using PCs. ”
Andreessen said this “army of bots” will start appearing in programming, but it won’t end there.
“It’s going to start with the coder, but after that it’s going to be all the other jobs,” he said. “I mean, every writer is going to go through it, you’ve already done it, every writer is going to go through it, every lawyer is going to go through it, every doctor is going to go through it.”
The next step, Andreessen said, is a world where each agent or bot has its own subagents or bots, mimicking the management structure of a human employee.
“This is just starting now, but I think in a year’s time, as we’re sitting here, it will be commonplace to have 10 to 20 bots each,” he said.