Heavy User: 45% of Our AI Spend Now Goes to Persistent Agents, Perplexity Leads
zealcaiden · x · 2026-11-12
Replying to dylan522p, zealcaiden shares first-hand data: 45% of their AI spend now goes to persistent agents, which he calls the next unlock in AI usage.
He's blunt about the tools: Anthropic's Claude Tags sucks, OpenAI's Slack agent is even worse. His team primarily uses Perplexity Computer, whose harness leverages many different models and outperforms the rest.
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