Why Most Custom AI Agents Are Already Obselete | The AI Corner Ep: 55 Nyssa Waters

Join host Mike Bayly and guest Nyssa Waters, founder of possibl.ai, to explore how a consulting firm of builders and engineers grew across New Zealand, Australia and beyond into the Gulf, the US and India. You'll hear why Nyssa argues agile is dead, how she forecasts the "black art" of token spend after months north of fifty grand, and why getting your scaffolding right beats building dozens of throwaway agents. Plus a look under the hood of RCRT, her agentic backend platform, the coming Ritual consumer product, and why she believes the next wave of AI innovation is coming from the East.

In this episode we discuss:

• 00:00 – Intro & guest bio
• 02:30 – From consulting to builders and doers
• 06:00 – Strategic AI versus baby steps
• 10:00 – Why Claude Skills wipes out point solutions
• 14:00 – The black art of forecasting token spend
• 18:30 – Agile is dead, intent-driven build wins
• 22:00 – Skilling engineers and the technical analyst gap
• 26:00 – Why the real tsunami comes from the East
• 31:00 – RCRT, Ritual and the seed raise
• 34:30 – Outro & next steps

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