Marc Andreessen

You know, they could, you know, compose Shakespearean rap lyrics or whatever you want.

You know, you could have very interesting late night conversations with them.

But, you know, the hallucination rates were high and, you know, they weren't good at reasoning and so forth.

And they couldn't write code very well and couldn't, you know, do math very well.

And,

You know, we're too prone to sycophancy and so on.

And so I think what happened is a lot of skeptics basically used the early models and got a, let's say, accurate but early and therefore lagging view of the actual quality of the technology.

Um, and then, you know, you fast forward to today, um, and you know, what may, may have 26 and we have, you know, just stellar, absolutely stellar, you know, models now, like, you know, uh, the GPT 5.5 is just, you know, extraordinary.

Um, and then we have reasoning models on top of that and we have, uh, RL, um, you know, uh, reason, uh, you know, RL, uh, uh, post-training happening in all, in all these different domains.

Um,

you know, to get kind of deterministic high quality work out of these things.

And then we have, you know, now we have agents, now we have long lived agents.

And now we have just in the last week, you know, GPT has this new thing, the goal feature of Codex that is letting people literally run, you know, run projects, have Codex go off and do projects for, you know, 24 hours or longer.

without human intervention.

And so the actual, you know, what we see in our job is like the actual utility of these things is like ramping incredibly quickly.

And by the way, it's really good today and ramping very fast.

And we and every other, I think, serious company in the space expects the ramping capability to be very rapid, you know, at least for the next couple of years.

Like we have like I think line of sight to it for sure is going to ramp dramatically.

The capability is going to ramp dramatically.

And so I just – the other thing here is just like a lot of people, I don't know, either skeptics or people who just don't know what to think.