Ben Horowitz: a personal agent's biggest win was canceling someone's NYT subscription
gethackteam · x · 2026-10-03
At a Databricks forum, Ben Horowitz shared that someone told him the biggest achievement of their personal agent (like Muse) was successfully canceling their hard-to-cancel New York Times subscription. The poster says they're going to try it — a telling anecdote about agents handling deliberately friction-heavy everyday tasks.
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