Worst proactive personal agent is an updated email filter, argues dev
manosaie · x · 2026-10-23
Developer manosaie argues the worst kind of proactive personal agent is just an updated email inbox filter—more software competing for attention that only makes things worse. He contends the path to useful personal agents requires ground-truth evals on the real world, feeding signals back to companies about what useless proactiveness looks like.
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