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And I think this is like a super, super important point. There is no glory in automating things for the sake of automating things. The goal is not to take as many things and make them … as possible for us. The goal is for any given piece of this function, what can I do to maximize absolute quality?

Frank LongWorks at Coatue · Practitioner, Coatue

Context. Long is explaining how his firm decides what to hand to a language model and what to leave to code or people.

Talk: AI Agents Will Upend Investing Even More Than Coding - Frank Long, Coatue, AI Engineer (YouTube), November 6, 2026, at 09:05.

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Frank Long, Works at Coatue (title not stated in the talk or its description). Works on the agent workflows at the firm he describes, so first-hand on the design; the talk gives no results or figures. Coatue does not sell AI.

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So it's probably no secret to you guys that, you know, news from Asia and Korean media outlets has been super important this year because semis, AI, have been a huge, huge theme in the market, huge theme. And I think this is an area where AI … poised to have a lot of impact is reading Korean language news better than our completely non-Korean speaking staff, right? I think I have a good thesis that this might be a good use case.

Frank LongWorks at Coatue · Practitioner, Coatue

Context. Long is walking through one example, interpreting news, of the first step in his framework.

Talk: AI Agents Will Upend Investing Even More Than Coding - Frank Long, Coatue, AI Engineer (YouTube), November 6, 2026, at 05:08.

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Very simple philosophy. We use our screens. We look at stuff. We do work. Every single thing that a human can see in pixels on the screen, an agent in your building should be able to see via API. The analogy I use is imagine you brought the smartest people ever, the greatest investors alive, and you brought them into your company, but you gave them a computer without logins to 75% of your services. It's almost immaterial how smart … system is if it doesn't have the tools to actually action that.

Frank LongWorks at Coatue · Practitioner, Coatue

Context. Long is describing the inputs an agent needs to do investing work, the first part of his framework.

Talk: AI Agents Will Upend Investing Even More Than Coding - Frank Long, Coatue, AI Engineer (YouTube), November 6, 2026, at 01:36.

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what can I actually compartmentalize in a way that we can understand and evaluate? Because that's what I'm hill climbing against, right? Otherwise, I'm just tuning these things.

Frank LongWorks at Coatue · Practitioner, Coatue

Context. Long is describing how to break an investing process into parts that can each be tested.

Talk: AI Agents Will Upend Investing Even More Than Coding - Frank Long, Coatue, AI Engineer (YouTube), November 6, 2026, at 11:47.

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And just as importantly, we have a culture that is super, super rigorous and built from the ground up to capture all this insight. For decades, we filed every single note about every single trade, about every … decision we made or didn't make, about what went well and what didn't go well. And that's poised us to expose us to AI.

Frank LongWorks at Coatue · Practitioner, Coatue

Context. Long is describing the firm's internal context, the records an AI system can draw on.

Talk: AI Agents Will Upend Investing Even More Than Coding - Frank Long, Coatue, AI Engineer (YouTube), November 6, 2026, at 03:00.

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So this probably understates the complexity. The reality is most things are multi-runner. Most things have deterministic code plus LLM plus statistical method, or human with LLM in conjunction.

Frank LongWorks at Coatue · Practitioner, Coatue

Context. Long has just walked through gathering, filtering and summarizing news as one small step of the investing function.

Talk: AI Agents Will Upend Investing Even More Than Coding - Frank Long, Coatue, AI Engineer (YouTube), November 6, 2026, at 10:52.

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And, of course, people, people are important runners in the system, right? So imagine a function meeting the management team of a company. … I probably don't want to send an if statement into that meeting. I think there's many cases where, because of judgment and the ability to navigate the real world, and all of these things, a person is the best runner for a given piece of the function.

Frank LongWorks at Coatue · Practitioner, Coatue

Context. Long has just listed code, statistics and language models as the ways to carry out each step of the investing function.

Talk: AI Agents Will Upend Investing Even More Than Coding - Frank Long, Coatue, AI Engineer (YouTube), November 6, 2026, at 08:35.

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