Emulated: The Data for Fully Autonomous Software Engineers and Companies — Joseph Wang
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Terms in this piece · Glossary
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
Why it matters
Agents trained on clean diffs will not be ready for the 3am database failure they are being aimed at.
Key quotes
“we're headed towards a future where agents are able to perform useful work over longer and longer horizons with little to no supervision”
Joseph Wang
“the gap in models is usually a gap in data. Models typically are only as good at as data is.”
Joseph Wang
“Model capability has never uh regressed whenever you introduce more high-quality data.”
Joseph Wang
“the real world is very, very complex, um, and how we as a industry emulate the real world is incredibly contrived and low fidelity”
Joseph Wang
“in 2026, all of us are on an infra's comeback, and it's very sexy. Everybody wants to work on it, right?”
