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The "Egg Theory" of AI Agents
t’s harder to give up my agent when it learns my email style over time. If Granola, meanwhile, improved over time based on my feedback—how I like to take notes, which takeaways are important to me—the product also becomes harder to give up. And same for a NSFW chatbot—if I build a romantic relationship with shared history, that’s tough to say... See more
Rex Woodbury • How Consumer Psychology Informs AI Product Design
Why do these businesses care so much? I suspect they aren’t really worried about AI—they're clinging to an old belief that if work isn't visibly difficult to produce, it must be less valuable. When we dig beneath the surface of "no-AI" policies and detection tools, we find an age-old assumption that worth must be measured in struggle. This mindset
... See moreIf we’re headed towards a future of agents integrated into our work and technology, maybe there’s an opportunity for AI to bridge gaps between language barriers. I mean this in both a human and programming sense.
Unplugging may not be the “right” answer. It’s an answer, for anyone who truly wants that kind of life, but it’s right on one end of the
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