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Now would be a really really really good time to audit:
- which apps have access to your email
- which apps use email for sign in and/or 2fa
- which apps/agents have access to financial accounts
Yea, arc was awesome. I stopped using it when they shipped dia, felt like this day was coming. every ai browser i've tried just feels like a worse version of chrome, largely a solution in search of a problem, and something that the llms do better from the harness
wonder if this is a compaction fail. seems likely. i've had a wide variance of mixed results with astra and sol; some great, some frustrating. but this moment feels like a stepping stone while they iron out kinks and make the models more efficient
i mean, it's either that or you get 503s all day. i think they're running up against physical capacity.
i also thought ai personal assistants were a black hole problem. then i used muse.
The problem with all of these AI personal assistant things is that people don’t actually want to do stuff.
You fucking get that right? Do you understand that?
Just like AI tools in the workforce, AI assistants don’t actually abstract decisions for you, they let you accelerate decision making.
So instead of making one decision a day and then lamenting you can’t do more, AI assistants are going to let you make ten decisions a day and act on all of them.
A miracle?
Nah dog, a fucking nightmare. Nobody except type A strivers who need Twitter fodder actually want that.
Let me tell you a story.
When I got back from college I was inspired. If I could take on an elite university with grit and determination, so could everyone I know.
I was all razzed up to get people I know to achieve their potential. What I learned after many years of trying is that absolutely nobody wants to realize their potential.
People want to hang out with friends and complain. That’s how the world has worked for ten thousand years. This weather fucks. Can you believe the cows walked off.
People don’t want enablement. People don’t want you to take all of their excuses.
TV is mindless passive activity. AI assistants are not. They’re telling people that they can achieve more. And people absolutely do not want that.
Let me tell you another story.
Once upon a time I lead a big process overhaul at work and it was great. Two years later I hired a contractor to do something similar. But I personally didn’t want to have to do a bunch of work.
Within a week I knew I fucked in. This contractor kept coming to me with decisions I needed to make. Dude I wanted to not have to think about this.
Again, a helper when you don’t actually want help is a disaster.
None of these AI assistants will take off because people don’t actually want assistants.
💯 eliminates a lot of product friction and anxiety that would almost be impossible to detect otherwise.
Nah, there's real product + infra magic there. Speed is nuts, and best browser use by a mile. Prob a custom model fine-tuned or heavily post trained on browser use. And never having to choose a model/thinking level removes product anxiety for A TON (maybe most) consumer use cases. Openclaw is build your own linux box, Muse is a MBP.
When Claude usage exploded around Feb-Mar, it became pretty clear to me there was some dynamic load limiting happening at the model layer to make sure they never "run out" of compute. Same thing happened to Astra/Sol last week. Sol was great 2 weeks ago, much more nerfed now.
Yea, this stuff is so frustrating. For what it’s worth they have a domain whitelist setting so you can restrict which domains are valid for hosting your pixel.
I’ve always appreciated the extreme honesty of wall st. Never trying to convince anyone they’re in it for any other reason than the money.
Don’t u dare xitter.cf/jellymoths/status/2000…
