TBPN(@tbpn):.@vkhosla predicts personal AI agents won't be a winner-take-all market. "[Personal agents] will be a broad category. I do think it'll be very diverse and I don't think there will be a winner-take-all." "Every one of the big labs, Meta and Google included, will want to have their own agents. They will have different trade-offs and I think we'll see a lot of diversity in requirements." "As to Alex's comment, I think he hasn't used agents enough to understand much of that diversity that he's thinking about." "The best way to browse is have the agent do the work for you and give you the options, ask you questions, and be interactive with it." "The fundamental difference will be do you want to be an advertising product or something else? Do you want to trust Meta with your data?" "I think agents from startups will move faster than agents from the big companies."

2026.09.21 22:11

.@vkhosla predicts personal AI agents won't be a winner-take-all market. "[Personal agents] will be a broad category. I do think it'll be very diverse and I don't think there will be a winner-take-all." "Every one of the big labs, Meta and Google included, will want to have their own agents. They will have different trade-offs and I think we'll see a lot of diversity in requirements." "As to Alex's comment, I think he hasn't used agents enough to understand much of that diversity that he's thinking about." "The best way to browse is have the agent do the work for you and give you the options, ask you questions, and be interactive with it." "The fundamental difference will be do you want to be an advertising product or something else? Do you want to trust Meta with your data?" "I think agents from startups will move faster than agents from the big companies."

Alex Kehr@alexkehr

2026.09.21 14:50

I think Silicon Valley is making a fundamental mistake with personal agents… optimizing entirely for the outcome and forgetting that, for a lot of things, the process is a very core part of experience. Travel is the obvious example. People will almost always never want “book me a trip.” They want to browse, compare, daydream, change their mind, send options to friends, and eventually book. And the average person probably has far fewer recurring tasks worth delegating than the AI industry seems to think. That’s why personal agents feel more like a feature that gets absorbed into existing products than a standalone category.