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Code AGI is Functional AGI (And It's Here)

January 18, 2026·24 min·3-min readsolotechnology
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The episode argues that functional artificial general intelligence (AGI) is effectively here, not because AI systems are sentient or universally intelligent, but because coding agents now demonstrate the core capability of 'figuring things out'—navigating ambiguity, iterating on hypothese

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