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Dots: Always-on agents

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  1. jdlyga · · focus · HN ↗
    The "personal AI agent" is what everyone's fighting over now. You have Grok Bots, Facebook's Muse, and Instinct doing this exact same thing already. Personally, I think Instinct is the best of the 3 right now. It's a bit like OpenClaw, abstracting everything behind iMessage or WhatsApp but you can ask it to monitor your email inbox, hand off a task like check for apartments that fit a certain criteria (and it gets back to you days later when a new one is posted), or ask it to check in every so often. But the landscape changes so often who knows what will happen. I think Instinct will get eaten up by one of the larger firms.
    1. estearum · · focus · HN ↗
      I like Instinct because I like the idea of trusting a 22 year old founder who won't (or can't) describe the security model of something that has all your credentials. Completely fucking hilarious that people are using that shit. Fits the stereotype for VCs though!
      1. digitaltrees · · focus · HN ↗
        But the browser lets you store credentials in local storage, what’s the problem?
        1. hollowturtle · · focus · HN ↗
          You're not asking this seriously arent you? Local storage follows strict security policies, go read the spec
          1. digitaltrees · · focus · HN ↗
            Viplbe coded apps storing api keys in local storage is a trope at this point isn't it?
            1. hollowturtle · · focus · HN ↗
              That would be dumb and dangerous. That said local storage is used by all major frameworks/libraries for storing jwt tokens of the current session
              1. digitaltrees · · focus · HN ↗
                Sarcasm is always hard on the internet. But yes, it’s a bad idea which was my point
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