The people have spoken.
They want honest propaganda with no big lab puppet strings, no astroturfed “new media,” and no fatcat VCs talking their book.
This is our first episode recorded from the new OpenAgents headquarters in downtown Austin.
In this episode, we discuss the two competing design philosophies of software, the New Jersey school and the MIT/Stanford school, and how those philosophies map onto the AI labs of today.
We talk about why the New Jersey school won, why Bell Labs, C, and Unix still matter, and why “Worse is Better” remains one of the most useful frameworks for understanding how real systems spread.
That philosophy sits underneath how we think about OpenAgents.
We are not spending a year behind closed doors building a secret system and asking the world to trust us later. We are starting with a simpler question:
Can we build something people want right now?
Can we put a price on stranded consumer compute that the market currently values at zero?
Can we pay people bitcoin for resources they already have?
And can that become the start of a real flywheel?
That is the bet.
If we can sustainably buy compute from ordinary people, produce something economically valuable with it, and wrap it in a simple interface people actually enjoy using, then we are not just building another AI product.
We are building the beginnings of a new market.
It will not be perfect.
It will not have the giant budgets of the big labs.
But it will be open, useful, and alive.
Learn more and follow OpenAgents:
Website: https://openagents.com
Docs: https://docs.openagents.com
GitHub: https://github.com/OpenAgentsInc/openagents
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