Consumer AI agents show extreme stickiness — benchmarks can't capture them, and privacy is the Achilles' heel
altryne · x · 2026-10-23
altryne spots early trends in consumer AI agents:
- Extreme stickiness: users report fatigue just thinking about switching agents.
- They improve with use: initial reactions and benchmarks can't show what these products are really like — a colder cold-start problem than social networks.
- Untapped use cases: users lack the imagination to explore what agents can save them time on; unlocking that is a huge opportunity.
- Privacy nightmare: agents hold all your connections and conversations, so people trust big companies over startups.
Echoing @illscience: this isn't about productivity — it's a new way for people to use computers, and it's day 1 of wave 1.
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