altryne: personal agents will leak into work, a category 10x-100x bigger than code
kimmonismus · x · 2026-10-22
Responding to kimmonismus's surprise at Anthropic apparently building a "grokbot competitor," altryne argued the personal/work agent boundary is blurring: people start using personal agents on private stuff, then quickly find themselves unproductive at work without them — leaking in like Slack did. He sized this category at 10x-100x bigger than code.
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