A dev's AGI eval: can it make $1M/year profit from one prompt per month?

JoshPurtell · x · 2026-11-02

Developer Josh Purtell argues the "Platonic eval" is a single threshold on a single task — his AGI test is whether a system, without being trained for it, can generate $1M/year in profit from just one prompt per month. He stresses that distinguishing evals from training data matters so we can teach AIs to improve both.

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