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Opinion: the bottleneck for personal assistants is interface and product, not models
Citing Ben Thompson, the author argues that putting coding and personal agents into familiar social interfaces would help consumers understand new capabilities, and that the current overhang is an interface and product problem rather than a model one.
Anish Acharya
@illscienceArchived 2026.09.30Originally posted 2026.09.30
Anish Acharya @illscienceOriginally posted 2026.09.30
.@benthompson said it well: "consumers have many software shaped holes in their life." putting coding agents + personal agents in a familiar social space will help consumers understand new capabilities so much of the overhang is an interface + product problem
This post quotes another post: “Wabi 2.0: a messenger that gets things done and an OS for personal software”
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