@GergelyOrosz: I setup a “personal assistant” to help summarize all the things I needed to do the day. Day 1 was amazing, at least I t…
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A user tried an AI personal assistant for a day but stopped using it because it didn't address the core issue of avoiding decisions, as discussed in the tweet and quoted reply.
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I setup a “personal assistant” to help summarize all the things I needed to do the day.
Day 1 was amazing, at least I thought
From day 2 to day 10 ignored the whole thing lol
Turns out I just don’t want to make a bunch of decisions, and an AI agent doesn’t change that. 👇
staysaasy (@staysaasy): 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
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