Building agents: life-oriented companions beat productivity tools in real use
yangyi · x · 2026-11-06
KOL yangyi shares his experience building agents with NewMax's Agent-im: the ones he actually uses most are life-oriented — a life coach, a reading coach that asks him questions, a classics teacher, an investing chat partner — while 'useful' agents like PPT designers and video transcribers go unused. His takeaway: once efficiency is abundant, people start pursuing the 'useless'.
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