altryne: personal agents will leak into work, a category 100x bigger than code
altryne · x · 2026-10-22
- Replying to a thread about whether agents are built for "work" or "life" (Kieran Klaassen: marketing targets work, but it has the most magic in life), Alex Volkov argues the line is blurring.
- People start with a personal agent on their own stuff, then quickly realize they're far less productive at work without it — so it "leaks" into work, much like Slack did.
- His take: this category is 10x-100x bigger than coding.
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