An agent can reverse-engineer an app from traffic, so why can't it learn me?
Resident-Fall4351 · reddit · 2026-10-20
The author points to a trending GitHub repo where an agent figures out how an app behaves purely by watching its network traffic — no explanation needed.
The contrast: agents can infer an app's behavior, yet users still retype the same preferences to AI assistants every week. Is the missing piece trust, privacy, or just nobody building it well — and what would you actually let it watch?
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