GrugNotes @GrugNotes

because there are an incredibly narrow window of use cases for AI that *aren't* professional. college friends don't talk about email. my grandma doesn't need a calendar manager. AI accountants, AI software engineers... john from omaha, nebraska doesn't need this. AI is a work tool. think back to the last generation of tech cos: salesforce, airtable, etc. are not tech for ordinary ppl. which is why it's exploding B2B (re ARR, insane valuations, etc.) the future of ai will only explode in consumer when a) it's fulfilling a basic need or b) it invents an entirely new category of living. we talk about interface problems a lot, and i agree, but the bigger problem is utility as a whole. AI is just simply not useful beyond search for most people. which is why its the new search! my bet is that the future of AI for consumers is a 10x increase in the basic domains for living (emphasis on living as opposed to working): food, housing, finances, dating, travel, and my favorite... healthcare! or, it alters fundamental society so much that core desires change... and then AI will have a space to play in there. the more radical opinion could be that AI is just a precursor technology for robotics, and AI will end up only mattering to tech people... and the average person will interface with robots and gloss over AI powering it, the same way the average person doesn't really think about chips/CPU/GPU. but that's a little crazy. TLDR ai is not built for normal people because normal people don't spend all their time working, and the main value-add of AI is working faster / better / harder. i spend a lot of time thinking about this as we ship AI hardware to thousands of normal ppl (seniors!). we're yet to see the billion-person class of new users exist across AI as a whole, and while i know it's coming... it could come from anywhere. it's too early to tell. but we're going to find out! and it's going to be so, so exciting. the world will change forever.

Josh Miller @joshm

3 days ago

Hot take… isn’t it kinda crazy that nobody is really using AI Agents? I don’t mean software engineers or AI early adopters. I mean “college friends talking about it in group chat,” the feeling you got when everyone started using Instagram or TikTok. These frontier AI models

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the problem is the things considered "consumer" in this space are not actually consumer. normal ppl do not check their email all the time. or draft emails. or schedule calendar events. i don't think the tech bros have figured out what the ordinary ppl actually want.

signüll @signulll

3 days ago

i predict we’ll see a breakthrough consumer ai product within the next 12 months that rivals chatgpt & claude by making personal agents genuinely useful & accessible. & it’ll feel like electricity. nearly all the seeds required to create this experience now exist. someone just

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Hot take… isn’t it kinda crazy that nobody is really using AI Agents? I don’t mean software engineers or AI early adopters. I mean “college friends talking about it in group chat,” the feeling you got when everyone started using Instagram or TikTok. These frontier AI models are *insane* (as are the harnesses & tool calls & the like). And every large tech co has an AI agents platform, not to mention all the YC startups doing vertical agents. Yet all of your friends and family outside of tech — who spend all day staring at their iPhones and get paid to work in browser tabs — don’t really care or find themselves using any AI agents yet. Yes ChatGPT, Claude, etc. are extremely popular… but if you look at the engagement data the vast majority of people are still using these aI chat tools like a glorified Google + Grammarly. That’s why the AGI labs are all pushing desktop apps for Codex, Cowork, etc. so hard to non-technical ppl. And yes exceptions for lawyers and customer service but even those have some asterisks and exceptions to rule. Look I’m not saying the ChatGPT moment for AI Agents is not coming… it most definitely is! Remember we pivoted from Arc to Dia precisely because we believe computing is going to be radically reimagined around these AI primitives. No doubt. But that’s my point: it’s just so surprising it hasn’t happened yet because all of the tech you’d need is there. Again if you stop for a second and think about it… for all the press and money and hype and models and crazy ARR numbers… this “AI Agent” moment does not *feel* like the other breakthrough tech moments we’ve lived through (e.g. think the shift to Stories via Snapchat & Instagram, or shift to on-demand via Uber/Airbnb/Doordash). Which is a long way of saying: if you can figure out the answer to “why” most people don’t care about AI agents yet (and have no enduring interest in using them) — especially since the models and harnesses are here and ready — the answer to that question will allow you to capture a lot of marketshare and make a lot of money in 2027. Theoretically, the tech is ready for AI Agents to totally transform how we work and live our lives… but alas the general public dgaf… that’s the generational puzzle to solve for the next 12 months for anyone not working on the models themselves.

Are you even running codex from the toilet. 🚽

!!!

Simon Willison @simonw

5 days ago

"Honolulu’s airport has started playing 17 island-themed, AI-generated songs on rotation, according to state transportation spokeswoman Shelly Kunishige." ! civilbeat.org/2026/04/honolu…

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My last message to fable started with “ok, no what the fuck” and ended with “what’s so hard to follow” ugh I’d say sorry but im at 99%

If you're struggling with the idea of not reviewing every line of code and feeling like you can still deliver a good product, talk to an engineering manager that used to be an individual contributor. They've already been through what you're experiencing.

i'd recommend everyone building "consumer" ai products to go and read the retweets and comments nobody is landing a good narrative or resonating with anyone in the the country outside of SF on ai anecdotally, the replies mirror the attitude of my family and friends back in PA

Orchid @orchid_hq

a week ago

Introducing Orchid, the first assistant that actually gets you 🌸

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Fable keeps suggesting tasks. Do you just accept all?

Now more than ever is a great time to focus on a single SaaS. Even if someone can copy it with AI now, if you use AI to improve it over a year, how many businesses will also spend one year improving their in-house replacement?

@SherryYanJiang What do you need a notes app for?

@joehewitt @theo Makes sense 🤙

Pretty happy with my picker

Ok you can copy mine my rpi bro

Theo - t3.gg @theo

a week ago

Are there any mobile apps with a really good model picker? Struggling to get this right...

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@theo Copy mine

Pls cut the price in half thanks

SpaceXAI @SpaceXAI

a week ago

Announcing Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0, our next-generation voice model with improved intelligence, transcription accuracy, and conversational capabilities. x.ai/news/grok-voic…

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@czue @jdeanwallace On day 2 it called my file grug.js.min when it was .min.js and I was like uh oh

A checkbox next to each thread in Claude code and codex would be nice.

@tantaman lol that guy is off his rocker

feel like post-AI era lacks rizz