Marc Andreessen

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The a16z Show · Marc Andreessen on AI Winters and Agent Breakthroughs · 3 Apr 2026 podcast

Well, you just compiled it.

Right, exactly.

And it's all right.

It's like swapping out a ship and recompiling.

But it's still your agent with all of its memories and with all of its capabilities.

And then, by the way, you can also swap out the shell.

So you can move it to a different execution environment that is also a bash shell.

By the way, you can also switch out the file system, right?

And you can swap out the heartbeat, the cron framework, the loop, the agent framework itself.

And so your agent basically is, basically at the end of the day, it's just its files.

And then there's, of course...

Yeah, it's basically, it's just the files.

And then by the way, as a consequence of that, the agent, and then the agent itself, it turns out a couple of important things.

So one is it can migrate itself, right?

And so you can instruct your agent, migrate yourself to a different runtime environment, migrate yourself to a different file system, migrate yourself to a different, you know, like we swap out the language model, your agent will do all that stuff for you.

And then there's the final thing, which is just amazing, which is the agent is, the agent actually has full introspection.

And actually, it actually knows about its own files and it can rewrite its own files.

Which, by the way, is basically no widely deployed software system in history where the thing that you're using actually has full introspective knowledge of how it itself works and is able to modify itself like that.

I mean, there have been toy systems that have had that, but there's never been a widely deployed system that has that capability.

And then that leads you to the capability that just completely blew my mind when I wrapped my head around it, which is you can tell the agent to add new functions and features to itself, and it can do that.

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