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1. jdlyga · 1790704279 · 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 · 1790705335 · 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. OliverGuy · 1790759613 · focus · HN ↗

         Yea, I'd be very happy with these systems if I could vend and rotate tempary read only credentials to these agents.

         I can't get a read only API key for my YouTube, Gmail, Outlook etc etc accounts. Only full admin access via a browser.

         I can get r/o creds for things like GitLab and AWS and K8s, which means I'm very happy to let my agents run wild at work because I know for certain they actually can't do any damage, they can read all they want but can only go as far as opening and MR that I can review and merge.

         1. kanzure · 1790786554 · focus · HN ↗

            Well, you could intercept those (gmail etc) requests locally, run fast local classification, and deny anything you don't like. Meanwhile, you can still grant some non-zero level of access and get the agentic benefits?

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