ChapterPal founder's AGI test: an AI that can replace him as pre-publish validator
burkov · x · 2026-09-27
- ChapterPal founder Burkov shares his personal AGI test: his fully automatic ingestion pipeline converts PDFs, arXiv papers, even thousand-page books into near-perfect Markdown with tables, figures and equations, handling 150,000 items overnight.
- The bottleneck is validation: about 20% of conversions have minor issues (leaked LaTeX, wrong years, wrong PDF), and no AI can reliably detect and fix all of them without breaking correct parts.
- He says he'll only declare AGI arrived once an AI can replace him as the pre-publishing validator/fixer.
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