Marc Andreessen on Builder Culture in the Age of AI
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People are becoming what we now refer to as AI vampires. They've got these huge bags under their eyes. They're completely exhausted, but they're like euphoric. They're thrilled. We're entering a golden age, is AI is going to be a superpower that everybody on the planet is gonna have access to. It's like the most dramatic increase in program productivity in, like, ever.
Twitter proved it, right, cutting 70%, and then it's running better or as good as it was before.
I generally don't wish I could go back in time and do things over again, but it would be really, really fun right now to be 18 or 20 or 22 and to have this capability and figure out what I could do with it. We are gonna see super producers the likes of a food never seen in the world.
There's news about it. UFOs. What is clear is the government at certain times has hid certain materials. Why would they do that if there's nothing to really worry about?
Two things are pretty clear at this point. One is that
AI is moving from novelty to infrastructure, but the conversation around it is still dominated by extremes. Fear on one side. Hype on the other. Meanwhile, the reality is playing out more quietly in how people work, what they build, and how organizations adapt. Productivity is increasing, roles are shifting, and entirely new ways of building are emerging. At the same time, the systems around information, media, and authority are being reshaped in ways that are harder to see, but just as important. The question is not just what AI can do, but how it changes the structure of work, institutions,
Eric, it is great to be back.
So there's a lot to monitor today. I wanna start first start with something that just happened, which is the, anthropic, blackmailing incident. And I I first wanna tell a brief story, which is, my, friend Joe Hudson has this concept called the golden algorithm. And the golden algorithm states that, whatever you're scared about, you bring it about in exactly the way you're scared about it. So if you're scared about getting abandoned, you'll be super insecure, and then people will abandon you because you're so insecure. This is an example of a literal gold algorithm where people have been so sca
I I haven't studied this one in detail. I I've been monitoring out these situations. But, however, I mean, just what I saw so far, I think I tried to sign Anthropics thread. I haven't read the underlying material yet, but Anthropics threads have they trace the they trace some black male behavior to literally to the the to the AI doomer literature. Yeah. That they that they that that it was in the training data. So there there are all these there are all these all these scenarios of, like, you know, the you know, the rogue AI gone wrong that the AI doomer's been writing about for twenty years.
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