Amjad Masad and Marc Andreessen on AI agents, AGI, Creativity, and Reasoning Agents are getting better, fast. Replit Agent v1 could do only 2 minutes of coherent work. v2 could do 20 minutes. Today’s v3? 200 minutes. As agents get more and more reliable, we can make huge progress in coding without ever achieving “true” AGI. In this episode, Marc Andreessen and Erik Torenberg sit down with @Replit co-founder and CEO Amjad Masad to discuss the upward trajectory of agents, how RL unlocked reasoning for modern models, why verification loops changed everything, and whether LLMs are hitting diminishing returns. 00:00 Intro 03:00 The vision behind Replit 07:00 Building apps with AI agents 09:30 When the agent becomes the programmer 13:45 Reinforcement learning and problem solving 17:30 The verification loop and multi-agent systems 26:00 Why coding is advancing faster than other Fields 33:45 AGI debate 41:15 Functional AGI and automating labor 53:10 Creativity, reasoning, and finding truth in AI 57:30 The origins of Replit 01:03:00 Hacking his university and getting caught @amasad @pmarca @eriktorenberg(a16z)