where an agent lives matters more than what model it runs

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Summary

The author argues that AI agents are more likely to be adopted if they are integrated into existing applications rather than requiring new apps, based on personal experiments over several months.

I've been testing agents for personal stuff since about February, not coding, probably 8 or 9 at this point, and the thing that predicts whether I keep using one isn't accuracy or the model. It's where it lives. Anything that makes me open a new app is dead on arrival. The ones I actually stuck with after six months: a Slack bot for standup summaries that I hit daily, Karpo which is just a contact in iMessage I text for restaurant recs maybe 3x a week, and a Shortcuts automation that triages my email. Three totally different tools, one thing in common. They all sit inside something I already have open. I rarely see this come up and I think it explains most of the gap between "impressive demo" and "thing I use on Tuesday."
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