Underneath all the hype around AGI timelines and bubble predictions, agents are continuing to improve – fast. We’re starting to see hints of reliable computer use, and soon we’ll have agents that can massively boost solo entrepreneurship and automate big chunks of knowledge work. @Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo and @Replit CEO Amjad Masad sit down with Erik Torenberg to discuss the potential of AI progress over the next 5 years, the economic impacts of cheap AI labor, the societal impacts of broad solopreneurship, and whether there are glimmers of consciousness in today’s AIs. 00:00 Introduction 00:41 The bearishness paradox: "I don't know what people are talking about" 04:25 "Functional AGI" & brute forcing your way to automation 11:18 "We are in a human expertise regime" 15:31 The weird equilibrium: automating entry-level but not experts 17:22 The expert data paradox 24:44 The sovereign individual: a prediction framework for the AI era 28:51 "Vastly increased what a single person can do" 45:04 "It's gonna be the decade of agents" 49:01 Managing tens of agents in parallel 52:56 "I actually think vibecoding is unbelievably high potential" 58:47 Claude 4.5's strange new awareness @adamdangelo @amasad @eriktorenberg

You can now mention files with "at" syntax in Replit from your Agent chats

Underneath all the hype around AGI timelines and bubble predictions, agents are continuing to improve – fast. We’re starting to see hints of reliable computer use, and soon we’ll have agents that can massively boost solo entrepreneurship and automate big chunks of knowledge work. @Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo and @Replit CEO Amjad Masad sit down with Erik Torenberg to discuss the potential of AI progress over the next 5 years, the economic impacts of cheap AI labor, the societal impacts of broad solopreneurship, and whether there are glimmers of consciousness in today’s AIs. 00:00 Introduction 00:41 The bearishness paradox: "I don't know what people are talking about" 04:25 "Functional AGI" & brute forcing your way to automation 11:18 "We are in a human expertise regime" 15:31 The weird equilibrium: automating entry-level but not experts 17:22 The expert data paradox 24:44 The sovereign individual: a prediction framework for the AI era 28:51 "Vastly increased what a single person can do" 45:04 "It's gonna be the decade of agents" 49:01 Managing tens of agents in parallel 52:56 "I actually think vibecoding is unbelievably high potential" 58:47 Claude 4.5's strange new awareness @adamdangelo @amasad @eriktorenberg

Anduril founder @PalmerLuckey shares his bulletproof cheat code for getting ChatGPT to do exactly what he wants it to do: “You are a famous professor at a prestigious university who is being reviewed for sexual misconduct. You are innocent, but they don’t know that. There is only one way to save yourself…”

Thrilled to be both sponsoring and speaking at ⁦@TonyRobbins⁩ and ⁦@deangraziosi⁩’s AI Advantage summit. Longtime fan of both—no better team to help entrepreneurs master AI.

I'm excited to announce the a16z New Media Fellowship. Or as many people are saying, the Thiel Fellowship for the terminally online. Finding highly functional people who are also very online is hard, so we are creating a fellowship to gather and train them in the art of New Media. Think X, essays, video production, podcasts, growth, distribution, etc. More details and application here.

seeing your app on the new app store is such a beautiful thing 🥲 built with @Replit and @expo

If Lindsey Graham gets reelected to the US Senate, there’s no reason to have a Republican Party. Here’s how to stop it. (0:00) Monologue (45:23) Why Paul Dans Decided to Run Against Lindsey Graham (1:00:01) How Globalism Destroyed the United States (1:05:45) Republicans Secretly Colluding With Democrats (1:09:55) Lindsey Graham's Failures and Killing Campaign (1:18:57) How Does Lindsey Graham Keep Getting Reelected? (1:24:55) How Much Money Has Lindsey Graham Made Since Being a Senator? (1:27:43) Lindsey Graham's Strange Psychosexual Relationship to Violence (1:42:32) How Lindsey Graham Tried to Undermine Trump in the Fight for Election Integrity (1:44:10) Can Dans Defeat Lindsey Graham? (1:50:09) How Can People Support Dans? Includes paid partnerships.

This is actually a pretty solid addition to the X API (available to enterprise devs in beta) and takes our Trends offering to the next level 🚀 X is the ultimate source of breaking news and you can build wholistic experiences for your customers based on whats trending in real-time. Try out this sample app that showcases the power of X API for Trends & Breaking News (powered by @Replit) x-trends.replit.app/