Generative Systems

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a16z Insight
Masad: Reinforcement learning paired with TreeSearch still has substantial runway
“I think the breakthroughs in RL are incredibly exciting, but we also knew about them now for like over 10 years where you marry generative systems with TreeSearch and things like that. But there's a lot more to go there”
Amjad Masad Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 52:34 Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
MAD Insight
Cole Ingraham: Build generative AI with deterministic components, not pure randomness
“I find it's much better and easier to focus on writing writing systems which are deterministic in their individual components and putting them together in a way that it's complex and seems non-deterministic, but that way you can actually reason about what it d…”
Cole Ingraham Apr 6, 2017 ▶ 9:57 AI-Powered Music // Drew Silverstein and Cole Ingraham, Amper Music (FirstMark's Data Driven)

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