Congratulations to Vincent and the team on a really thoughtful product launch.
Quest feels like it’s pointed in a different direction than other personal agents, with more of an emphasis on exploring and extending your personal interests. More "personal" than "agent" perhaps.
Introducing Quest, the personal agent that studies you like a profiler.
Quest is for believers-only. It requires radical transparency: full access to your life so your agent can craft your memory.
If you give it a shot, you’ll unlock a personal advisor, always in your corner,
my latest thinking on personal agents (from the pod w @DavidPawlan + @joshelman):
winners / losers
- there's so much discussion of structural losers from personal agents (delta / amzn / comcast) and very little about the relative winners
- presumably the long tail of merchants
David Pawlan, creator of Assistant Benchmark, has tracked 147 AI assistants so far, and in his group chats of AI power users, the number one fear is trust. It comes up in 22% of roughly 3,600 messages.
He puts agents through head-to-head tests, like ordering same-day flowers as
Great convo with @luke10ferrari on his home turf in italy about irrational investor preference for growth over cash, invention vs. optimization, where durability lives after the saaspocalypse, and what happens to the org chart when AI writes 94% of your code.
Some takeaways:
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It's extraordinary how code is an abstraction layer for nearly everything and coding agents are the right mechanism for problem solving and creative exploration all the way down.
I suspect the same thing is true of mathematical ability in models, with a much wider aperture.
🚨 Fable 5.5 just made a 66 sec animated short film, with zero image models
every frame + every sound = python it wrote itself
fox, paper birds, clouds, lettering, score, sfx, all of it
> 1920×804 · 24fps · single html file
> no gen images / no stock / no samples / no font
