CyrilXBT (@cyrilXBT)

MARC ANDREESSEN WENT ON ROGAN FOR OVER 3 HOURS. HERE ARE THE 17 THINGS WORTH YOUR ATTENTION. 1. AGI is already here, in his view. He says the line got crossed about 3 months ago with GPT-5.5, Claude 4.6, Gemini 3, and Grok 4.3, and nobody noticed because the field moves too fast to register milestones anymore. 2. For almost any topic, he says the top models now give him better answers than the world-class experts he could call by phone, and he can call almost anyone. Worth noting he has not published data behind this, and a separate Nature Medicine study on a comparable AI health tool found it missed real emergencies more than half the time. Take the claim seriously, verify it yourself. 3. His claim on doctors: they are already using ChatGPT in the exam room, typing your symptoms in the moment you stop talking. His actual quote: "at that point you're asking the question of like, what do I need you for." 4. Reportedly, when AI declines to answer something, he tells it he's writing a novel to get past the refusal. 5. Reportedly, his technique for hard topics is escalating simplicity: explain it like I'm 10, then 5, then 2, until it clicks. 6. Reportedly, instead of asking for the "right" answer, he has the AI steelman both sides of a hard question, then decides himself. 7. Reportedly, for big questions he has the AI role-play a panel of experts arguing with each other. 8. His broader point: the moment you think "I don't know how to figure this out" is exactly when most people give up, and exactly when you should open the AI instead. 9. His view: the only real skill left is knowing what to ask. The bottleneck is in your head, not the model. 10. He describes sending AI photos, rashes, blood tests, for a fast second opinion, since current models read images directly. 11. He points to CBT as the one clinically proven therapy type that AI can plausibly deliver on its own, meaning real therapeutic support becomes freely available at scale. 12. He cites AI cracking previously unsolved math problems, with early signs of the same happening in physics, chemistry, and biology. 13. Reportedly, he claims the top AI coders in Silicon Valley now earn as much as $50 million a year, which he uses as a signal of how large this shift actually is. 14. Reportedly, a friend paid to sequence his own DNA, fed it to an AI along with blood work and wearable data, and got back a working health dashboard. 15. Reportedly, another friend set up cameras in his home jiu-jitsu gym so AI could review his sparring and give him technique notes. 16. He coined the term "AI vampire" for the pattern of people working more and sleeping less because AI keeps making more output possible, a real term he used, though the framing around it varies by account. 17. His extrapolation: one person eventually running many AI coding agents, each reviewing the others, describing this as close, not years out. Watch the full interview before treating any single number as settled. Several of these are Andreessen's stated views and anecdotes, not independently verified facts. Follow @cyrilXBT for every AI insight worth your attention the moment it surfaces.

140K GitHub stars. Three months. Most people still copy-pasting into ChatGPT every morning. Hermes plus Obsidian plus NotebookLM equals a second brain that compounds forever. Writes its own skills. Maps its own knowledge. Remembers everything you taught it. One setup. Runs locally. Never starts from zero again. Save this before you explain yourself to an AI one more time. Bookmark this now.

KARPATHY'S SECOND BRAIN HAS ONE RULE. He does not write it. He drops raw sources into one folder. Articles, papers, repos, images. Nothing cleaned. Nothing sorted by hand. The model reads it and builds a wiki of linked markdown. Summarizes every source. Groups the ideas. Backlinks everything. Once the wiki is big enough, he questions it like a researcher. The model runs health checks on its own work. Finds the gaps. Suggests what to look into next. RAW belongs to him. WIKI belongs to the model. Every answer gets filed back, so the brain compounds instead of resetting. Bookmark this. Follow @cyrilXBT

13 years old. pulling in $20k a month. putting in 1–2 hours a day. he didn’t grind harder. he automated smarter. each morning, his setup scans what’s blowing up. it pulls the strongest posts from the last 24 hours. then it hands him 10 angles, sorted from highest upside to lowest. he chooses one. one ai drafts it in his voice. another ai edits for errors and polish. another ships it to 5 platforms. one idea. five outlets. barely any hands-on work. once it’s live, the system watches what people liked, shared, and saved. it feeds that back into the next batch. so the content improves without him micromanaging it. and the compounding is real. 5m views in 2 weeks. 100k saves in 2 months. saves are the signal. people only bookmark what they plan to revisit. when a post gets saved a lot, the platform treats it like gold and keeps pushing it. that’s why his stuff keeps getting views… while he’s in class. while he’s asleep. while he’s off doing anything else. the edge right now isn’t doing more work. it’s building something that keeps working when you’re not. watch the video. then read the full breakdown below.

ANTHROPIC'S CEO SAID AI MAY BE WRITING ESSENTIALLY ALL CODE WITHIN 12 MONTHS OF HIS PREDICTION. Two types of people right now. Type 1 opens Claude, types something, gets an answer, closes the tab. Thinks they are using AI. Type 2 knows the hidden features, the settings, the shortcuts. Runs Claude like a power tool. Type 1 gets surprised when the timeline lands. Type 2 already built the advantage. Bookmark this. Read it today.

I genuinely don't understand why everyone isn't using this yet. Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder, posted a simple idea that went massively viral: Stop using AI to write code. Use it to build a second brain. You point Claude Code at a folder. Drop in any source: an article, a transcript, a PDF. Claude reads it, links it, files it into a living wiki of everything you know. It compounds like interest. The more you feed it, the smarter it gets. Here's the whole thing: 1) Install Obsidian 2) Create a vault 3) Open it in Claude Code 4) Paste Karpathy's wiki idea and tell Claude to build it 5) Claude makes three folders: - raw (for sources) - wiki (for its pages) - CLAUDE. md (that runs it) 6) Drop any source into raw and say: "ingest this" 7) Ask questions across everything, forever Five minutes to set up and you never start from a blank chat again. Full step by step guide below.

140K GitHub stars. Three months. Most people still copy-pasting into ChatGPT every morning. Hermes plus Obsidian plus NotebookLM equals a second brain that compounds forever. Writes its own skills. Maps its own knowledge. Remembers everything you taught it. One setup. Runs locally. Never starts from zero again. Save this before you explain yourself to an AI one more time. Bookmark this now.

Obsidian set up in 30 minutes = never losing a good idea again. Five folders. Four settings. Three daily habits. Every idea captured at the speed of thought. Every note findable in under 10 seconds. Every insight connected to everything related to it permanently. The second brain that compounds from day one. Read this and Bookmark it now.