this is bleak but unfortunately correct, and important for anyone building personal assistants.
the average human wants two things:
- good things to happen to them
- bad things to stop happening to them
the first personal assistant to be proactive-first, truly, will win.
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
