@garrytan: When everyone is building the same primitives it does speak to needs that will only intensify from here And we will eve…
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Garry Tan responds to a quote from a16z and OpenRouter co-founder Alex Atallah arguing that as everyone builds the same agent primitives (loops, memory, connectors, sandboxes), the industry will eventually converge on a single correct agent operating system.
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When everyone is building the same primitives it does speak to needs that will only intensify from here
And we will eventually converge on the correct OS
a16z (@a16z): .@OpenRouter co-founder Alex Atallah on the “everyone is building the same thing” take:
“This reminds me of this tweet I saw… Everybody’s building an agent loop with notifications, third-party connectors, context management, memory, sandboxes, agentic web search, an always-on
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