Looking Back: Personal AI Agents' Value Lies in Deep Personalization, Not Errands
pzakin · x · 2026-09-21
Reflecting on a piece he wrote in late 2023, the author argues his thesis romanticized a different kind of value in personal assistants: the long-term value of personal agents is less about transactions and long-tail grunt work, and more about deep personalization and surfacing genuinely useful information — a useful counterpoint to today's task-execution-focused agent products.
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