Daniel Jeffries: only ~2% can actually use AI agents, mass adoption is 10-20 years away
Dan_Jeffries1 · x · 2026-10-13
In "The Infinite Canvas and the Agency Problem," Daniel Jeffries argues agents are an infinite canvas: most people don't iterate-and-figure-it-out, they want one solved task. Quoting Muse's vu0tran, he notes builders and investors are outliers in openness/conscientiousness and project that onto habit-bound users. Agents today serve the 2% innovator end of the diffusion curve — not Instagram/TikTok users. The terminally-online bubble (parallel worktrees, $100K NVIDIA workstations) masks a consumer gap that may take 10-20 years, or a generational shift, to close.
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