Adam D'Angelo
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Adam D'Angelo
@adamdangelo
CEO of Quora, working on Poe: @poe_platform

1-2 yrs ago the story was always "AI-for-code works pretty well so far but soon AI-for-every-other-vertical will catch up" Instead, code just got another 100x bigger...



Introducing script bots, a new way to combine models and automate workflows on Poe. Script bots are created through vibe coding with Script Bot Creator and can combine any of the 200+ text, image, video, and audio models on Poe, plus any other bot on the platform. (1/9)

Amjad Masad says we may have “functional AGI,” not true AGI: automation that works because humans supply the expertise. True AGI would learn new skills on the fly. For now, humans are still the teachers. @amasad

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




