Cognitive Revolution podcast: intelligence thresholds, the memory wall and is SaaS cooked
The Cognitive Revolution · youtube · 2026-10-08
Nathan Labenz's weekly episode covers off-the-record notes from The Curve conference on shortened AGI timelines and whether humanity is approaching an intelligence level it shouldn't cross; Positron CTO Thomas Sohmers on beating the memory wall as token spend eclipses human salaries; swyx on coding agents disrupting enterprise software; Evan Miyazono on unowned risks from accidental agent swarms; and Mercor's Edward Hu on the future of training data.
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