Two hours arguing about recursive self-improvement: whether roughly a year after human-level intelligence you slingshot far past it. It is a debate rather than a briefing, and that is exactly why it is worth the time — you hear where the disagreement actually sits instead of a confident summary.
Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?
Dwarkesh Podcast · 2 hr 13 min
Love this episode. Tara is an amazing builder and I've listened to this episode multiple times now and recommended it to multiple product related people at my company.
I think my two biggest take aways are the "three mantras" Tara shares about "how to build products at OpenAI" and her thinking on "the only possible planning horizon".
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (Product Lead ChatGPT Work)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · 1 hr 22 min
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A post-mortem of the July 2026 sell-off from someone who calls it 2022 packed into a single month. Useful counterweight if you only ever read the optimistic version.
The case that the next era is not faster chatbots but background agents running on their own for hours or days — and what has to get cheaper before that works at all.
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