Big Technology Podcast · Friday, July 10, 2026
Alex notes that AI companies appear to be converging on a common use case where AI is primarily used to "get things done" for users through agentic workflows. Ron Janroy agrees, stating that his company, Writer, has been focusing on this area for a year. The challenge for these companies, Alex posits, is how to differentiate themselves when offerings become similar.
“Ron Jan, it seems like all, I mean, we've talked about this on the show a bunch, but like now you can finally see it with your eyes. All AI products seem to be converging on this one use case, which is that like, you might have some chat, but really AI is there to get things done for you.”
“how are AI companies going to differentiate themselves if they're all offering effectively similar versions of the same product?”
“Well, this is front and center in my life working at Writer and, you know, like delivering enterprise AI and what we've been selling for a year now. Natural language driven agentic workflow building, which sounds very buzzwordy, but is basically this, it's that kind of marrying of what Codex has done in the command line but in a more in a more chat based interface.”