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29 Jan 2026 Lenny's Podcast Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet

“It's always kind of relative in comparison to a human worker, right? And it's, like, I don't know, human skill level caps out at a certain point, but that's because of the inherent biological limitations of the human organism.”

— Marc Andreessen

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Marc Andreessen
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29 Jan 2026
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Lenny's Podcast

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…The way the co-founder of Anthropic put it is, like, "A basket of the most valuable economic tasks," so it's, like, 10, 15, not every single economically-valuable task. Okay, got it. Yeah, so it's maybe even a slightly reduced definition. And by the way, we're clearly getting close to that if we're not already there. And so on that one, I kind of feel like, so I kind of feel like the cosmic one overstates what's going to happen. And then I kind of feel like the kind of AGI definition that you just gave, I think it kind of understates what's going to happen. It's almost too reductionist. And the reason for that is, I don't think there's any reason to assume that human skill level is the cap on anything. Right? And so the way we say that is AGI always is the definition you gave, the definition I gave. It's always kind of relative in comparison to a human worker, right? And it's, like, I don't know, human skill level caps out at a certain point, but that's because of the inherent biological limitations of the human organism. Right? Human, I gave you an example. Human IQ, kind of what they call "fluid intelligence," or the sort of G factor of fluid intelligence, IQ I think tops out in humans as a species, it tops out around 160. Right? Where at like 160 it's like Einstein level, Einstein [inaudible 01:25:00]- In terms of IQ. Yeah.…

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