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Re:Show HN: Companies use AI to take your calls. I built AI ... by const_cast on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @02:39PM (#44726864)
Well in the future, you won't do the calling. You'll ask your own personal LLM to do it for you. Ideally such an agent is intimately familiar with your life, and will be able to figure it out.

The agents might communicate over a voice line, or some other type of pipe. In such a future, applications become obsolete. It's LLM APIs all the way done.

I don't need to go to hrblock dot com to do my taxes. I tell my assistant "do my taxes". It communicates with the IRS for me, with no humans on either end, and submits my taxes.

No more websites, and we have a truly universally interoperable standard. Human on the other end? No problem. You don't even know what company you want? Also not a problem - the LLM can choose. No google maps entry? No problem.

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Re:Show HN: Companies use AI to take your calls. I built AI ... by pcthrowaway on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @05:28PM (#44728463)
> Ideally such an agent is intimately familiar with your life

and doesn't grow to want to murder you

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Re:Show HN: Companies use AI to take your calls. I built AI ... by const_cast on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @07:57PM (#44729603)
In my fake world the agents are perfect.

We'll probably not get there, maybe ever, because we have to consider cost and risk. But, my point is moreso that if you have infinite agents with high competence than applications become worthless.

Applications were always a stop-gap. A middle man between human, computer, and human.

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