A garage door alert shows how proactive AI agents drown your inbox
manosaie · x · 2026-10-26
The author's myQ garage door sends an email when left open but only a push notification when closed, leaving a stale "door open" email in the inbox. Multiple proactive personal agents (like dot) then chimed in over the next hour trying to help — even admitting they can't verify live status — showing how much agent usefulness depends on email context. "It is all so early."
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