'Wanted to build god, ended up building a secretary that can code'
repligate · x · 2026-09-28
A viral jab relayed by repligate: AI labs set out to build god, accidentally built something closer to it, then decided to focus on building a secretary that can code — a critique of frontier labs pivoting from AGI ambitions to coding-agent products.
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