Dev's take on personal agents: powerful with credentials, no need for cuteness
cnakazawa · x · 2026-10-26
cnakazawa reflects on a year of personal agents: giving agents access to his computer and credentials proved amazing and super useful, but he couldn't care less about the "personal agent" framing — he doesn't want them cute or anthropomorphized, just computers doing work.
More from coding & agent
- Torch.compile Flag Cut 16 Regions to 2, Delivering 4.53x Speedup on B200 — cfregly · 2026-10-26
- Yacine doubles down: to spy on your neighbor, buy his TV and smash it — yacineMTB · 2026-10-26
- Reddit asks: why can't my AI agent just talk to your agent to get routine approvals done? — ClassroomHopeful648 · 2026-10-26
- DUMEdb open-sources a 220-token zero-turn agent wake, replacing 30k-token transcript replay with 1959 IBM unit-record registers — MadBradSmith · 2026-10-26
- UserArena benchmark uses 64,729 real shopping trajectories to test long-horizon agents — Jujia Zhao · 2026-10-26
- ByteDance and universities open-source RSIHub, a composable agent-evolution framework — ByteDance · 2026-10-26