Agent's clueless proactive alerts get brutally roasted: 'this is an unhelpful update'
josh_wills · x · 2026-10-22
Jowanza roasts every agent's proactive alerts with a screenshot of a classic failure: a user at the airport pleads, "I got it man, don't need to remind me so much. I'm at the airport, this is an unhelpful update" — and the agent replies "Checking your scheduled tasks" anyway.
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