Voice AI agents as the stepping stone from Palm Pilot to iPhone
curious_vii · x · 2026-10-26
curiousvii argues chat voice mode supervising inference-intensive threads is the path from 'Palm Pilot' to 'iPhone' for ambient computing; the complement is always-on hardware that doesn't interrupt — a hard engineering/design problem.
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