Episode of the video podcast **In Good Company** by **Norges Bank Investment Management** (Norwegian sovereign wealth fund), published on YouTube on **October 21, 2026**, **43 minutes**, in English. **Nicolai Tangen**, the fund's CEO, interviews **Eric Schmidt**, former CEO of Google (2001-2011).
#superintelligence#AGI#scientific discovery
Eric Schmidt (invité) · ancien PDG de Google ; Nicolai Tangen (hôte) · directeur général de Norges Bank Investment Management.
Long-form interview (**25-minute read**) with **David Heinemeier Hansson**, creator of **Ruby on Rails** and co-owner of **37signals**, by **Vikas Shah** in *Thought Economics*, published on **September 28, 2026**, five days after the opening keynote of **Rails World** in Austin where he announced that 37signals was going *"pencils down"* on hand-written code. **(A)** The reversal, dated: in summer 2025 he told **Lex Fridman** he would not let AI write his code; what changed his mind was the arrival of coding agents in late 2025, and *"the change has really become vertical, in my opinion, over the last three or four months"*. **(B)** The underlying argument is not technical but political: programmers had become *"a clerical class"* mediating access to the machine, and the agent plays the role of Luther — *"Agent Luther"* — by removing the intermediary. He draws a consequence for himself: his coding skills are no longer *"economically viable as an independent lever"*. **(C)** The sorting of business models: client-side is *"already gone"* (Adobe), client-server still holds because *"people have no desire to run their own servers"*, plumbing moats hold (Shopify, *"payment, shipping, and tax systems"*), and **Salesforce** and **SAP** are *"in serious trouble"* since *"there's no more value in the code, only in process intuitions"*. **(D)** **Omarchy**, his Linux distribution with built-in agents: the **Quattro** version written exclusively by agents, **200,000 downloads in 18 days**, **4,000 plugins** in four weeks, **$21.7M** in donation pledges. **(E)** The forward-looking close: AGI reached, *"pockets of ASI"*, robots, and *"what do you do when you have nothing left to do?"*. To be read against [[lecun-still-far-from-human-level-ai-llm-2026-09-25]] from the same month.
#end of hand-written code#pencils down#coding agents
David Heinemeier Hansson · créateur de Ruby on Rails et copropriétaire de 37signals · interrogé par Vikas Shah dans *Thought Economics*.
X post by **Yann LeCun** (founder and president of **AMI Labs**, professor at NYU, former Chief AI Scientist at Meta, Turing Award), September 25, 2026, ~110 words. He replies to **Noah Smith**, who deemed a video *« already falsified »*, in which LeCun calls the idea of a *« country of geniuses in a data center »* *« complete BS »*. (A) Four test questions: where is the domestic robot, the voiture autonome de **niveau 5**, the car that learns to drive *« in a few hours of practice like any 17 year old »*, the system that understands the real world and learns fast *« like a house cat »*? (B) A concession: AI will match humans in every domain, and the technology **already surpasses them on a growing number of tasks**. (C) Two caveats: *« We're still far from that »*, and it won't be built on **LLMs**, confined to a text-interface role. A second post points back to his September 20 formulation: autoregressive LLMs, *« in and of themselves »*, will not lead to human-level AI. Until now, the corpus held LeCun only as a reference cited by others ([[deanwball-open-weights-decelerationnistes-kimi-2026-07-17]]), not as a source; the text reads alongside the skepticism in [[luc-julia-ai-controversy-statements-media-2025-08-22]].
#Yann LeCun#AMI Labs#NYU
Yann LeCun — fondateur et président d'AMI Labs · professeur à NYU · ex-Chief AI Scientist de Meta · prix Turing. Post X.