Engineer: agents shouldn't be cute — 'Computer Intelligence' beats 'AI' as branding
cnakazawa · x · 2026-10-26
cnakazawa reflects on a year with personal agents: agents with access to his computer and credentials are amazing and useful, but he couldn't care less about 'personal agents' as a concept — he doesn't want them cute or anthropomorphized, they're just computers doing work. He also argues 'Computer Intelligence' would have been far better branding than AI or SI.
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