Alexandr Wang

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Y Combinator Startup Podcast · Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

So I think it's definitely a mistake to go all in on WordCell.

Like I think you need to shape rotate.

But then I think the sort of like...

much more of I think what's necessary going into the future is having a deeper sort of compass and philosophical view on how the world should develop because I think there are many, many lessons from human history around how we think civilization go through this period and

So humanity will change more in the next decade than it has in the past 100 years, probably.

And so I think the imperative for us to have positive visions for that and have coherent articulations of how that should develop are more important than ever.

I think there's still just astronomical opportunity in agentic looping and figuring out how you develop systems that enable you to spend 1,000x more or 1,000,000x more on tokens to drive an outcome in a continuous feedback loop.

If you think about most companies, companies are just these large-scale feedback loops where humans are operating each of the edges.

Companies, they get customers and they figure out how to make those customers happier.

And if the customers are happier, then they spend more.

And if they spend more, then you can hire more people who can then go figure out how to get more customers and make those customers happier.

And that in some sense is the feedback loop of every startup or every business.

And within that, there are microfeedback loops that exist.

And I think developing agentic systems that can operate and optimize these feedback loops is...

there's just huge amounts of alpha there.

I think we've seen, internally at Meta, cases where if you can develop the right agentic loop and you have the right eval or the right metric for the agents to optimize, you can have a swarm of agents accomplish more than a team of 100 engineers very, very handily, actually, very, very easily.

And so I think figuring out what the world

looks like with lots of these agentic coordination problems.

I think that is one of the most interesting problems today.

Yeah, I think mechanically figuring out what the metric is.

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