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ai morning #71 — perplexity built a database with two engineers and hundreds of ai agents
Perplexity published how it built the database behind its search. Two engineers did it in two months. The rest of the team was a swarm of always-on AI agents. Now the whole thing is going open source.
Marcus walks through what happened, why Teknium's own Hermes numbers make the same point from the other side, and what it means for builders who still think of agents as autocomplete.
In this episode:
00:00 Intro
01:22 Perplexity's agent-built database — Two engineers and hundreds of always-on AI agents built CobbleDB's core in two months — and it's going open source.
02:51 Hermes 1,400…
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