The AI assistant irony: its showcase use cases (booking restaurants, travel) are what people least want to delegate
devahaz · x · 2026-09-12
Quoted take: personal AI assistants have a weird adoption problem — they appeal most to type A people, while type B people are the ones who actually need them.
The reply adds the irony: the most common demo use cases (booking restaurants, travel) tend to be things people are quite particular about, the last things they'd hand over start-to-finish. The thread hits a core agent-adoption tension: the value of delegation is inversely related to users' desire for control.
Related event: Critics mock restaurant bookings as AI's 'revolutionary' use case(3 posts)→
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