Sequoia's pragmatic AGI bar: delegated work that self-recovers to completion
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-11-04
From a thread summarizing Sequoia's AI takes: set philosophy aside — a system that can be assigned a job, recover from its own errors, and keep going until the task is complete is, 'in a commercial sense, AGI.'
The slide reads '2026: This is AGI.' Thread context adds that first-wave AI apps delivered only 10–40% productivity gains, and the next generation must aim for 10–40x — 'from faster horses to cars.'
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