Lantern Interviews

Garry Tan on Naval

Live in the Future

Panelist Jul 2, 2026 · 68 min

Mostly a duplicate of the other supplied “Live in the Future” entries, repeating the AI-writing, vertical-software, and household-robot discussions nearly verbatim. Skip unless you particularly want the concrete and amusing agent-to-agent workflow.

I have my codex put. Put together a markdown file that I send to my developers that they can give to their Claude code. Yeah. To go execute things that I want to go do it. Don't talk to me. Have your agent talk to my agent. That's literally what it is. My thing will just file an issue on your GitHub repo, and then. Yeah, what I want to do is I want to get on the zoom, and I'm on the zoom, having the conversation. And then 10 minutes in, I know this is not for me. Yeah. And then I just hit a button and the agent takes over. Agent Naval keeps talking and I go off to the next one. Yeah, I swipe right on you. But for. But then the joke's on me because you were never there to Begin with,
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Garry Tan discusses rapid AI progress, arguing that intensive use, strong evaluation systems, and practical experimentation are essential for understanding its effects. He also explores AI’s implications for writing, agents, startups, robotics, and the future structure of work and education.