Bill Gates AI on AI (one month later)
Bill Gates outlines the future of autonomous expert systems and their impact on software development. He emphasizes the importance of verifiable trust in these systems and highlights the competition in the AI landscape. Gates also discusses the need for improvements in server performance and client unification to maintain a competitive edge.
- ▪Gates believes that the improvement in computer power will be outpaced by advancements in autonomous expert systems over the next 20 years.
- ▪He introduces Darwin Agentic Cloud as a solution for trustworthy agent compute, which provides verifiable receipts for executed workloads.
- ▪Gates notes that OpenAI is plateauing while competitors like Anthropic and Aider are gaining traction in the market.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
# The Agentic Tidal Wave*To:* Executive Staff and Direct Reports *From:* Bill Gates *Date:* April 26, 2026Our vision for the last 20 years can be summarized in a succinct way. We saw that exponential improvements in cloud would make great software quite available. In the next 20 years the improvement in computer power will be outpaced by the exponential improvements in autonomous expert systems. Verifiable trust will be crucial to delivering the benefits of these advances.Most users of software have not yet seen the price of trustworthy agent compute come down. Cloud platforms and SaaS networks are still depreciating networks built with old verification models, things like API keys and signed JWTs and trust-on-first-use.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.