swyx

Polsia grew from $50K to $1M ARR in weeks under a single founder with zero employees, powered by thousands of autonomous agents running 24/7.

“Author of "Hitting $1M ARR in weeks"”

Agent Labs represent a distinct business model from Model Labs by prioritizing product-first development and outcome-based pricing rather than model training, enabling higher margins and measurable labor replacement at scale.

“Author of "The Agent Labs Thesis"”

Swyx is joining Cognition, which raised a $10B Series C for Devin AI software engineer, based on his thesis that Code AGI will achieve 80% of AGI's value in 20% of the time.

“Author of "Cognition: The Devin is in the Details"”

LLMs lack the simulation depth and theory-of-mind reasoning that experts possess; true advancement requires multiagent world models capable of anticipating adversarial behavior rather than simple scaling of intelligence.

“Editor who introduces the article and contextualizes the world models discussion within three categories of approaches.”

AI startups winning the market are agent labs that ship products solving real problems using existing frontier models, rather than model labs spending years and billions on foundation model R&D.

“Quoted on the distinction between agent labs shipping products first versus model labs in R&D cycles”

GPT-5 represents a fundamental leap toward AGI by thinking with tools rather than merely using them, with exceptional software engineering capabilities but notable weaknesses in writing tasks.

“Co-author testing GPT-5 as early-access OpenAI partner”