If the team's objective is to bake a cake, everyone can now easily go bake their own cake. But it's pretty hard to go back and unbake everyone's cake so you can take the necessary ingredients from each. As always, the direction of the engineering is more important than the engineering itself.

Put differently: knowing what problem to work on is more valuable than just working on problems. And this knowledge comes from living and being in the human world.

It is important for people who make things – art, code, music, writing – to define that relationship for themselves. The big AI firms are facing immense pressure to be profitable; they are not focused on your agency or empowerment.

This workflow doesn't hold your hand - you find your own flights, find your own lodging, etc - but I'm not sure I want to hand over my credit card to an agentic system that might not have my best interests at heart

If a tool increases productivity, people will adopt it organically and get a performance advantage. It’ll be so useful you can’t NOT use it. Forcing it from the top down seems to run the risk of actually reducing productivity if your assumptions about how useful it is are wrong.

i'm assuming it's using some cloud-based model (LLM?) to do the filtering, which might raise privacy concerns. would be great to provide this locally, on-device.