Developer Reflects on Personal Agents: Tools, Not Anthropomorphic Companions

Former Twitter engineer cnakazawa reflects on a year of personal agents: giving agents access to his computer and credentials proved powerful, but he has no interest in anthropomorphic assistants — agents are just computers that get work done.

2026-10-26 ~ 2026-10-26 · 2 related posts

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