Post by Underline Ventures

Agentic AI is here to stay. And AI systems are becoming increasingly capable of acting independently. Today's systems can reason, plan, and act - navigating tools, adapting to feedback, and operating across changing environments. We’re kicking off our series of agentic AI interviews with Margot van Laar, an Applied AI engineer at Anthropic based in London, to understand how agentic systems actually look like under the hood. Because the question is no longer how to constrain them, but where we're willing to let them operate on their own. Read the extended interview in comments.