Dev's take: it's over once an AI companion on your desktop sees and does everything you can
round · x · 2026-09-23
Quoting a joke reply ("return to monky"), engineer round offers a sharper take: "it's over as soon as someone makes an AI companion that lives on your desktop and is able to see and do everything you can."
A snapshot of AI-community sentiment around always-on desktop agents — the ultimate product form, and possibly the end of current interaction paradigms.
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