Dennis Zhu

2 episodes · 2 moments · last on 24 Mar 2026

24 Mar 2026Meta(re)verse, EU INC, Vibedesign, Microsoft Vs. OpenAI, The Situation Room

2:59:5515 min

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.

20 Mar 2026Meta(re)verse, EU INC, Vibedesign, Microsoft Vs. OpenAI, The Situation Room

3:04:5615 min

Dennis Zhu, Adaptive AI: Computers Built for Agents

Fresh off a viral launch, Adaptive AI co-founder Dennis Zhu describes the product as an AI inside a computer redesigned for agents rather than humans—auto-handling bills, connecting Whoop and Eight Sleep data, and clearing stale GitHub PRs. He covers unsolved problems like captchas and bot-unfriendly browsers, separate UIs for humans versus agents, upcoming credit cards and secure credential management for agents, and how early GPT-4 access turned him from an "ideas guy" who hated debugging into someone shipping code.