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Re:Duet is the future of chatbot interaction by soundworlds on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:40PM (#50296479)
There was a really good line I heard recently about how a lot of the hype comes from people who have has assistants as staff in life previously, whereas most of the population has never been in that position. So don't worry if it's not at all obvious how to benefit from this for the near future (I also have near 0 interest of delegating my personal matters)
Re:Duet is the future of chatbot interaction by baron3dl on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:11PM (#50298130)
It's obvious how to benefit, but it's a convenience I don't think is worth the cost. Hermes and OpenClaw are janky as hell, and handing Dario, Zuck, Musk, or Sama access to everything I do in life is a bridge too far.

"I have nothing to hide" is a poor reason to abdicate one's right to privacy. Especially considering how arbitrary and capricious Anthropic is about enforcing Dario's model of ethics and morality.

Re:Duet is the future of chatbot interaction by stormbeta on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:51PM (#50298515)
Agreed. I cannot see any value in using one of these agents this way, despite how useful the models are for other more guided tasks like software development.

Especially as the convenience in this case seems quite minor even ignoring the incredibly steep cost, particularly as I do not trust any of the companies offering these services to accept proper responsibility and accountability for failures, even ignoring the privacy issues.

Re:Duet is the future of chatbot interaction by Terretta on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:50AM (#50301730)
In my view, the current "value" is driven by the current artificial scarcity of quality web search results.

For now with not all agents controlled by advertising engines, and not all content yet designed to honeypot them, today's agents make good headway bush-whacking their way to finding the right information on which to base task work for you.

If the first page of SERPs for anything, and the extra time needed to suss out quality information to inform your work or task doesn't bother you, then this benefit isn't one you'll value.

Put another way:

Today's agents help "cut through" the same maze of value extraction that Silicon Valley (where market share means find a way to tell users your thing is "free"), adtech, and the content-as-ad-scaffolding industry have built over the past three decades. Why waste time wading through all that when your time is better spent building more of it? :-)

Re:Duet is the future of chatbot interaction by baron3dl on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:33AM (#50303655)
that $2tn valuation started making more sense when i realized selling ad-space in LLM output is inevitable.