AI Companies Accelerate the Race for AGI
MattGarciaEth · x · 2026-07-11
The author relays and comments on the fact that frontier AI companies are speeding up their pursuit of the "universal software engineer replacement"—essentially AGI.
A cited quote notes that leading AI firms are now locked in a fierce competition to hire "the most expensive software programmer in history." The author adds that all of this is happening right out in the open.
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