AI-planned afternoon recap: more apologies than self-planning, but she'll do it again
alliekmiller · x · 2026-10-21
Wrapping up her agent experiment, Allie Miller reports she had to send more apologies for the AI's behavior than it would have taken to plan the afternoon herself — yet still calls it a worthy experiment that "will only get better."
- Key learning: identity verification is a shitshow — if someone else's AI assistant pings you on their behalf, you have to go through your own ID verification and possibly a phone call
- Her inbox is flooded with volunteers; she'll almost certainly run it again, probably with a flight
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