AI assistants are just personality-driven cron jobs with memory, tools and judgment
signulll · x · 2026-09-18
A pithy definition making the rounds: modern personal AI assistants are essentially sophisticated personality-driven cron jobs — a ledger-style memory for ongoing work streams, plus tools and good judgment.
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