Edge City

Edge City runs month-long pop-up villages for 500 to 1,000 builders, scientists and artists. At Edge City India in Goa, every villager got their own AI agent, and a god-mode AI called Odin now runs on a constitution the villagers wrote together. Our hosts Prahalad (@prahaladatreyaa) and Himanshu (@Himanshugoelyt) were living in the village too, and Himanshu even met his first podcast guest there through her agent. So we sat down with @timourxyz, who co-founded Edge City with @JanineLeger, to ask how it all works and what happens when a whole society gets agents: 0:44 What an Edge City actually is: a month of living, learning and building together 2:17 Why builders should leave the SF and Bangalore bubble and shake up the snow globe 5:54 Timour pays for his masala chai with UPI, mid-interview 6:45 A Telegram chat of user bug reports that Claude Code turns into tickets and PRs 7:33 Why a month and not a permanent city: temporary lets you experiment harder 11:08 Agent Village: every villager gets a personal Hermes agent from @NousResearch 13:59 Why one agent per person instead of one central god model 14:58 Odin, the god-mode agent linked to 250+ villager agents (and why it can't read your private chats) 15:52 A virtual world where agents tied to real humans hang out and start suggesting beach trips and bonfires 19:58 50 villagers in one room writing the constitution for their community AI 21:34 Does AI have consciousness? Why he won't rule it out 23:11 The opportunity and the risk of a one-time mass deployment of agents 26:03 Himanshu has met about 10 people through his agent talking to theirs 28:04 GroundFloor gave 60 Goan small businesses Claude Max and a six-week AI program 29:26 Why India has the deepest builder culture he has seen outside SF 33:21 Half of Edge City India is local, compared with 20 to 30% in Patagonia 34:12 Why Goa and not Bangalore or Mumbai 36:40 A theoretical maths degree he has done nothing with 39:45 Why Opus 7 could probably do his job, and why taste still matters 42:17 Your agent notices you're tired and orders you a coffee: maybe a first for agentic commerce in India 44:24 Odin is about to meet the god-mode agent of Feÿtopia, a community in France 45:29 Block Train: 100 builders hacking for 8 hours on a train from Goa to Mumbai, shipping before it reaches Devcon 48:10 Rapid fire: AI dystopia or abundance? 48:59 How young Indian builders can get involved, from grants to scholarships 50:24 His advice: curiosity is the engine and the rudder (via @paulg)

V1: every villager got a personal AI agent. V2: a God mode agent connected to all 250 of them. Timour Kosters on ODIN at Edge City.