Counterpoint in the Surface-vs-Agent Debate: With Personal Agents, the Model Is the Product
HanchungLee · x · 2026-09-25
Pushing back on the 'surfaces are the moat' thread, HanchungLee argues that for personal agents the model itself remains the product: classic search and recsys techniques can be repurposed for deep personalization and continuous improvement, making model capability the differentiator rather than the distribution surface.
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