From Poke to OpenAI's Dots: the personal messaging agent era is here
sujingshen · x · 2026-10-12
A retrospective on messaging-first personal agents: Poke pioneered the text-an-AI paradigm, followed by Instinct (deeper capabilities), Grok Bot (coordinating multi-agents), Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots, and family-shared Coral. The author argues the field is shifting from answering questions to agents that know your context, use your tools and coordinate — with the hard problem being when to ask clarifying questions vs. just act.
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