Personal Agent Demos Are Stuck on Restaurant Bookings While Users Want Taxes and Invoices Handled
sujingshen · x · 2026-10-03
Blogger sujingshen mocks the flood of personal agent demos centered on booking restaurants and hotels, arguing real users are bogged down by tedious tasks: filing taxes, reconciling invoices, chasing payments, and consolidating scattered emails into a spreadsheet. Quoting jjacky's original tweet, the post argues trillions invested in compute should first automate the most annoying mundane work people actually have.
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