Hot take… isn’t it kinda crazy that nobody is really using AI Agents? I don’t mean software engineers or AI early adopters. I mean “college friends talking about it in group chat,” the feeling you got when everyone started using Instagram or TikTok.
These frontier AI models are *insane* (as are the harnesses & tool calls & the like). And every large tech co has an AI agents platform, not to mention all the YC startups doing vertical agents. Yet all of your friends and family outside of tech — who spend all day staring at their iPhones and get paid to work in browser tabs — don’t really care or find themselves using any AI agents yet.
Yes ChatGPT, Claude, etc. are extremely popular… but if you look at the engagement data the vast majority of people are still using these aI chat tools like a glorified Google + Grammarly. That’s why the AGI labs are all pushing desktop apps for Codex, Cowork, etc. so hard to non-technical ppl. And yes exceptions for lawyers and customer service but even those have some asterisks and exceptions to rule.
Look I’m not saying the ChatGPT moment for AI Agents is not coming… it most definitely is! Remember we pivoted from Arc to Dia precisely because we believe computing is going to be radically reimagined around these AI primitives. No doubt. But that’s my point: it’s just so surprising it hasn’t happened yet because all of the tech you’d need is there.
Again if you stop for a second and think about it… for all the press and money and hype and models and crazy ARR numbers… this “AI Agent” moment does not *feel* like the other breakthrough tech moments we’ve lived through (e.g. think the shift to Stories via Snapchat & Instagram, or shift to on-demand via Uber/Airbnb/Doordash).
Which is a long way of saying: if you can figure out the answer to “why” most people don’t care about AI agents yet (and have no enduring interest in using them) — especially since the models and harnesses are here and ready — the answer to that question will allow you to capture a lot of marketshare and make a lot of money in 2027.
Theoretically, the tech is ready for AI Agents to totally transform how we work and live our lives… but alas the general public dgaf… that’s the generational puzzle to solve for the next 12 months for anyone not working on the models themselves.
Grok Build keeps getting smarter.....this update expands Auto mode, gives developers more control over Bash permissions, speeds up /btw, and makes long conversations easier to navigate
Release Notes: v0.2.119
Features:
• Always allow for bash commands now lets you edit a free-form glob pattern instead of only word-prefix scopes.
• Long responses now show a clickable arrow that jumps back to the start of the answer.
• Auto mode now auto-approves more common read-only git commands and harmless file appends.
• Plan previews now show Mermaid diagram buttons (Open Image, Copy Image Path, Copy Source).
Bug Fixes:
• Gateway connections now detect and recover from dead sockets more reliably.
• Question cards now let you Tab through answers instead of losing focus to the scrollback.
• Resume picker no longer tries to load a session from pasted garbage when you press Enter.
• Background task completion messages no longer grow unbounded when the task produced a huge log.
• Plan viewer scrollbar now responds to clicks on the border column and renders without dark stripes in
• Expired external auth provider credentials now correctly trigger the interactive sign-in flow instead of a silent 401 loop.
Performance:
• /btw side questions now reuse the parent session’s cached prefix for faster responses.
• Doctor and tmux-backed startup are now faster when no live tmux processes remain.
A recent YC startup spent 250k on a domain. I was slightly shocked. But when I asked how much they raised after YC, the answer was 6.5m. So 1/26 of their round. This is the time we live in; one shocking number counterbalances the other.
Guess which generation makes up the largest group of Binance’s stock users.
👶 Gen Z
👨 Millennials
👴 Gen X
The answer: Gen Z, at nearly 44%.
More than 90% of Direct Stocks and bStocks users also come from emerging markets.
Meet the investors behind the numbers 👇
New satellite images show Iran quickly rebuilding nuclear sites struck by the U.S.
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper warns Tehran is rapidly restoring its military capabilities, including missiles and drones, as it seeks to regain leverage.
He argues the answer is to "strangle" Iran economically, saying cutting off the regime's revenue would cripple its ability to rebuild and bankroll terrorist proxies.
The panel asked the questions.
This post captures one CISO's perspective on the answers.
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