When agents clear your life admin, most of us have no backlog of big problems to attack
vivekhaldar · x · 2026-10-03
Responding to a thread asking why booking flights — which takes 5 minutes — is everyone's default agent use case, the author argues that once agents relieve you of the life admin eating 70% of your waking hours, it takes a while to figure out what to do with yourself: most people don't have a Navier-Stokes-like backlog of problems ready to attack.
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