2026: This is AGI

kept by eddie jan 15

Long-horizon agents that can figure things out autonomously are functionally AGI, and they will become widespread in 2026.

I've decided to leave OpenAI. I'm incredibly proud of all the work I've been part of here, from helping create the reasoning paradigm with @
A researcher leaves OpenAI after leading post-training on the GPT-5, o1, and o3 models to join Anthropic for reinforcement learning research.
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Let Me Droid That For You: What 780K Agent Searches Reveal
Analysis of 780K AI agent web searches reveals a dominant pattern: exploratory search followed by specific fetch, with 75% of queries related to software development.
also on Factory, #ai-agents, #software-engineering
Services: The New Software
Sequoia argues the next $1T company will sell work as an AI-native service, not a tool, capturing the larger services budget by automating intelligence-heavy tasks.
also on Sequoia Capital, #startups, #ai-agents, #software-engineering
Ex-Twitter CEO’s AI Startup Raises Funds at $2 Billion Valuation - WSJ
Parallel Web Systems, founded by ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, raised $100M in Series B funding at a $2 billion valuation to build web search for AI agents.
also on Sequoia Capital, #startups, #ai-agents
Agent design patterns
The piece outlines context-management design patterns for AI agents, including giving agents a computer, progressive disclosure, offloading, caching, sub-agents, and evolving context.
also on Manus, Claude Code, #ai-agents, #software-engineering, #ai