Observer: personal agents are automating away exactly the tasks people enjoy most
signulll · x · 2026-10-02
signulll offers a counterintuitive take: the things that give people dopamine — adding to cart, window shopping, waiting for packages, booking flights and hotels, planning vacations — are precisely what personal agents are obsessed with automating away. The observation implies AI product builders may be misreading which frictions users actually want removed, eliminating the pleasure of the process rather than the pain.
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