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So we're back now with another long read slash big think episode. And this week,

we're getting into a topic that I have been kind of obsessing about for the last several weeks.

It feels to me quite clear that something dramatic has shifted. Obviously, I don't mean some new

model that changes everything, but more, it feels as though we've digested what the latest round of models is actually capable of.

We've had enough time with them for them to start to shift our behaviors.

And the implication of all of that is, fundamentally speaking, some different new era in the

story of AI and more broadly in the story of work.

It is a shift which I am still trying

to figure out how to put words around, but one that I am convinced has profound implications

for how companies do what they do. To some extent, the shift is starting to come home to roost

in a concerted conversation around whether we are finally at AGI. I will argue that we are

with some nuance, but what I'm going to do first is read some excerpts from a recent piece by Sequoia's Pat Grady called 2026. This is AGI. Follow it up with a more skeptical piece by Every's Dan Shipper called Toward a Definition of AGI. And then I'm going to add my own thoughts, steel manning both, and trying to end with where I think is the most useful place to be.

Let's start with Pat's piece.

It's actually by Pat Grady and Sonia Huang and begins.

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