From lobsters to Personal Agents: the shift from local PCs to cloud machines
vista8 · x · 2026-09-23
The author reflects on what changed as AI agents evolved from early experiments to today's Personal Agents: the environment given to the model shifted from a local computer to a cloud machine. Setting model capability aside, they also note that products like Muse and Grok bot are heating up, which is worth examining.
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