06/17/2026
Matt Hicks, the CEO of Red Hat , runs AI agents around the clock and still says we are nowhere near AGI. š
This rapid fire had some takes I wasnāt expecting:
ā³ No AGI by 2030. His exact words: āIām in the no magic camp.ā A measured take from someone who lives inside this technology every day.
ā³ AI wonāt replace programmers OR CEOs. It changes what they do.
ā³ The most underrated AI tools arenāt the frontier models. The mid-size open source ones like Gemma, Nemotron, and Super Nemotron Nano are doing more than most people realize.
ā³ His favorite tool right now is Remote Factory on GitHub. A meta framework for agentic work that most people havenāt heard of
ā³ Hallucinations arenāt a solved problem. When asked, AI still gets the leadership structure at Red Hat wrong.
Which of these takes hits different for you?