Personal agents' core mistake: optimizing outcomes while the process is the experience
manosaie · x · 2026-09-22
- alexkehr argues Silicon Valley misreads personal agents by optimizing purely for outcomes when the process is often the point: travelers want to browse, compare, daydream, and share options — not say "book me a trip."
- He adds that average users have far fewer delegatable recurring tasks than the AI industry assumes, so personal agents look more like a feature absorbed into existing products than a standalone category.
- manosaie replies that vibe coding showed the same failure mode, yet friction-removal is inevitable; the question is whether we reinvent the process to restore the human touch — or admit it was never essential.
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