24 Mar 2026Meta(re)verse, EU INC, Vibedesign, Microsoft Vs. OpenAI, The Situation Room
Dennis Zhu on Adaptive's Agent-First Computer
Dennis Zhu, co-founder of Adaptive AI, recaps the viral launch — pings all night keeping servers up, over a million views — and explains Adaptive as an AI placed inside a computer redesigned for agents: the agent writes its own software, operates it itself, and the human gets a chat plus dashboard "mission control." Use cases include auto-forwarding OpenAI/Anthropic bills to his Mercury account, biohacking setups connected to Whoop and Eight Sleep, and automatically chasing pull requests open more than six hours. He traces his path from a 2022 LLM startup with OpenAI as an early investor to GPT-4 turning him into a coder, discusses CAPTCHAs and the web's hostility to agents, nods to Stripe's MPP agent-payments bet, and previews what's next: an agent credit card, secure credential management, and better browsing.