a16z|Oct 23, 2025 14:01
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)
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