Arjun(@clipsofcrypto):a16z GP Anish Acharya and Lenny Rachitsky on why "Hey Claude, make me a million dollars, make no mistakes" doesn't work: Lenny: "Agents will help you hill climb and reach some new plateau, and then you need a human there to think about a bigger idea and unlock it. Then it keeps going and going, this agent to human back and forth." Anish: "What really illustrates that is if you've ever tried to have an agent come up with a business idea for you. Hey Claude, make me a million dollars, make no mistakes. Why doesn't that work?" "It's because you sort of need to set it in the right direction. And nothing in the technology has shown us that that is not needed."

2026.09.08 23:10

a16z GP Anish Acharya and Lenny Rachitsky on why "Hey Claude, make me a million dollars, make no mistakes" doesn't work: Lenny: "Agents will help you hill climb and reach some new plateau, and then you need a human there to think about a bigger idea and unlock it. Then it keeps going and going, this agent to human back and forth." Anish: "What really illustrates that is if you've ever tried to have an agent come up with a business idea for you. Hey Claude, make me a million dollars, make no mistakes. Why doesn't that work?" "It's because you sort of need to set it in the right direction. And nothing in the technology has shown us that that is not needed."