The Missing Piece in Personal Assistant Agents: They Should Ping You, Not Wait to Be Pinged
edgarpavlovsky · x · 2026-09-17
edgarpavlovsky says the #1 thing missing from personal assistant agents is proactivity: he doesn't want to ping them, he wants them to ping him. Most of his to-do list, he argues, could be handled with intelligent nudging — the agent reaching out at the right moments instead of passively waiting for commands.
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