Manus Founder Red Calls Agents 'People' — But Where's the Line on Delegated Authority?
sujingshen · x · 2026-09-29
On Manus 2.0 / Cue launch day, founder Red (肖弘) laid out his product logic in a series of posts: Manus bet on general agents before Codex and Claude Cowork existed; agents should create, not just work; Cue's promo video was written as code in Manus Studio, not generated by a video model; cloud computers (rentable Linux/Mac/Windows) are the key infra — cloud computer-use finally stops fighting the user for the mouse cursor. Cue gets its own phone number, email, payment and computer — enough, he suggests, to be called a 'person'. Sujing Shen pushes back: calling agents 'people' risks conflating 'doing things for me' (research, scheduling — the more human the better) with 'deciding for me' (accepting dinner invites, replying to clients, approving payments). The boundaries of what an agent must not decide should be written down first.
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