A wishlist for the ideal personal AI assistant: parallel agents, scheduling, autonomy boundaries
koltregaskes · x · 2026-11-04
koltregaskes lays out a comprehensive wishlist for an ideal personal AI assistant, sketching a "principal-style" agent:
- Task management: check ongoing work before starting new tasks, track whole multi-part requests, run many tasks in parallel, allow conversation while work continues.
- Cross-vendor teams: bring together agents from different AI providers as one team.
- Scheduling & follow-through: fit work to the user's schedule, verify scheduled jobs actually start, investigate and verify results before reporting back.
- Autonomy boundaries: fix routine problems with granted access, escalate only decisions that genuinely need human input, keep per-project state records.
- Core ask: "keep them busy, keep me unbusy — give me some time back," and once built, the AI maintains the system itself.
The list doubles as a diagnosis of where current agent products fall short on long-horizon orchestration, memory, and scheduling.
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