“The frustration I feel is, if it eventually doesn't get it at the quality I want, I get scared, because I'm so dependent on agents now that I fear for myself. I'm like, what if these agents go to zero tomorrow? What am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to manage 15 different sales opportunities in a week, having all these calls, still doing hiring, doing all these things at once? That's the only panic attack I get. I'm like, if this goes down, I'm screwed.”
Lenny's Newsletter · Product & Design · November 2026
Context
Claire Vo asked her usual closing question about what he does when an agent isn't doing what he wants. He said he just restarts, then admitted the real worry: how dependent he has become on agents to run his company.
Transcript
…random stuff that isn't really accurate, my Grogpa is sort of like that agent that goes and reviews all that again and improves it also. So, that's been like one way, but the agents have just been like really good. That if it doesn't get it, I just go on Twitter and I blame Tebow for not fixing
it. That's exactly what I'm saying. Add Team
was straight, you know, for not fixing codecs. Like, yeah, I try, or I just switch the agent, use something else and wait and update it. But yeah, that's that's typically my strategy. I don't get frustrated. The frustration I feel is if it eventually doesn't get it at the quality I want, I get scared because I'm so dependent on agents now that I fear for myself. I'm like, what if all these tanks? What if like what if this agents go to zero tomorrow? What am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to manage 15 different like sales opportunities in a week in tandem, having all these calls still doing like hiring, doing all these things at once? I, that's the only like panic attack I get because I'm like, this goes down, I'm screwed. What am I going to do?
What, what a perfect end to our episode, William. This has been super, super fun. Um, for our audience, where can we find you and how can we be helpful?
Yeah, um, um, I'm on LinkedIn, I'm on X at iTrillo, um, William Imoh on LinkedIn, just find a dude with headphones. I fly small planes and off days. So, um, uh, that's that's a way to find me. And if anyone's interested in growth, especially if you have a DevTool product and you want to reach the…
Amazing. Well, thank you so much for joining How IAI.
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