Why AI Agents Hallucinate — and How to Actually Control It
About this episode
Wiley Jones built hardware in Chinese factories before deciding the operational software was the real broken thing. His company Doss just raised $55 million to build what he calls a "different species of software", systems that rewrite themselves through control theory feedback loops and treat hallucination as a simple selection error.
Key moments
- 0:00 Self-evolving software sounds like science fiction
- 1:17 The hardware engineer rebuilding enterprise software
- 1:32 Why is your supply chain software broken?
- 4:00 What does a value engineer actually do?
- 9:24 Stuck between spreadsheets and SAP?
- 13:00 Why do enterprise systems take 2 years to install?
- 16:05 Why does a demo take 2 hours but implementation takes 3 months?
- 17:55 What does AI-native actually mean?
- 23:20 The language between code and English
- 27:42 Self-evolving software: why Notion doesn't evolve itself
- 32:03 Control theory meets AI agents (200 years of forgotten math)
- 32:59 Is hallucination just a selection error?
- 38:50 Why invent your own programming language?
- 41:06 Why pre-SaaS enterprise builders already thought this way
- 44:18 Should companies rewrite their products for AI?
- 46:42 Build vs buy in 2026: how do you decide?
- 49:28 More to build now than in the history of history
- 51:10 B2B customer acquisition the Jane Goodall way
- 53:38 How does a CEO use AI every day?
- 55:40 What if your whole company shared one brain?
- 58:14 Why he doesn't care if you know PyTorch
- 1:00:56 The bomb defusal thought experiment
- 1:03:08 The book that changed how he thinks about purpose
- 1:05:32 What's still durable?
- 1:07:38 outro