Vijoy Pandey
On The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
“We have connected agents, but we realize that connectivity is not the same as cognition. What we need to move towards is shared cognition and shared reasoning. … Right now, none of these agents are reasoning collectively.”
The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · AI Research & Frontier Labs · November 2026
Context
Pandey was making the case for what he calls the Internet of Cognition. He compared agents today to humans before language: individually smart but isolated. His claim is that protocols like MCP and A2A solve discovery and connection but not shared intent or shared reasoning.
Transcript
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…that we were kind of describing a little bit in the last conversation? I would say they were, you know, it was more of a vision than a reality then. Is it any more of a reality now, or are we just going to kind of bring them into our collaboration environments and hope for the best with that?
…is allowing them to access tools, but they are isolated. And we want to take these agents, pivot them from being individually intelligent to being collectively intelligent. So what we need is the equivalent of shared intent and coordination. We need the equivalent of shared knowledge so that these agents can then reason collectively. Right now, none of these agents are reasoning collectively. So we have connected agents, but we realize that connectivity is not the same as cognition. What we need to move towards is shared cognition and shared reasoning. So that's the jump that we are trying to make. The WebEx, the Teams, the Slack channels are all the genetic experience part of it. But what we need below it is a way for agents to get discovered, get connected. That's what we're doing right now. That's what we've talked about. But an infrastructure stack that we are calling the Internet of Cognition. that allows agents to semantically align on…
as you're building out that stack, how do you think about, I mean, there's various terms for this, right? The model eats the harness is kind of one refrain that we've heard a lot, or bitter lesson engineering is another where I now have a skill in my personal AI setup where just every so often it's…
The first thing is, to your statement, the models will get better and better. And that is what we call vertical scaling, where the widget that you're building, the node that you're building is actually going to get better and better over time. And it should, because that is the first law of…
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