Below the Frontier: The Battle for Good-Enough AI
Practitioners using AI tools daily need to understand how commoditization of agent capabilities affects workflows and tool strategy.
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Consumer AI agents reaching inflection point; explores economic implications when good-enough AI handles routine knowledge work.
Excerpt
What happens to the AI trade when good-enough intelligence does most knowledge work? This piece was originally published on my Substack. I'm around on X / Twitter and LinkedIn. Over the past few weeks, it's become obvious that consumer AI agents have hit an inflection point. Meta launched Muse, a personal agent that runs on its own virtual machine and can shop, schedule, and fill out forms on a user's behalf. Meanwhile, startup Instinct's valuation grew to $10B in a matter of months. We’re fina