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What the hell happened with AGI timelines in 2026? – Rob Wiblin
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What the hell happened with AGI timelines in 2026? – Rob Wiblin

8/4/202649:28
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Last October, famed coder Andrej Karpathy called AI agents “slop.” Two months later he completely reversed his view, describing them as “alien tools” that are “rocking the profession.”He was far from alone in his whiplash. Six months ago, host Rob Wiblin recorded a video explaining why so many AI ex