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chasing0entropytoday at 7:24 PM8 repliesview on HN

Can you design an AI agent that I own, to replace me? This is what the market really wants and is probably one of the ONLY things that doesn't exist.

Just let me subscribe to an agent to do my work while I keep getting a paycheck.


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georgehotztoday at 7:48 PM

Who's giving you that paycheck? Why don't they just hire that AI agent themselves and cut out the middle man?

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crackalamootoday at 7:27 PM

Isn't this kind of the same as an AI copilot, just with higher autonomy?

I think the limiting factor is that the AI still isn't good enough to be fully autonomous, so it needs your input. That's why it's still in copilot form

ErroneousBoshtoday at 8:48 PM

> Just let me subscribe to an agent to do my work while I keep getting a paycheck.

I've already done this. It's just a Teams bot that responds to messages with:

"Yeah that looks okay, but it should probably be a database rather than an Excel spreadsheet. Have you run it past the dev team? If you need anything else just raise a ticket and get Helpdesk to tag me in it"

"I'm pretty sure you'll be fine with that, but check with {{ senior_manager }} first, and if you need further support just raise a ticket and Helpdesk will pass it over"

"Yes, quite so, and indeed if you refer to my previous email from about six months ago you'll see I mentioned that at the time"

"Okay, you should be good to go. Just remember, we have Change Management Process for a reason so the next time try to raise a CR so one of us can review it, before anyone touches anything"

and then

"If you've any further questions please stick them in an email and I'll look at it as a priority.

Mòran taing,

EB."

(notice that I don't say how high a priority?)

No AI needed. Just good old-fashioned scripting, and organic stupidity.

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globular-toasttoday at 8:27 PM

What would you actually do if you got that? I like watching movies and playing games, but that lifestyle quickly leads to depression. I like travelling too, but imagine if everyone could do it all the time. There's only so many good places.

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cyanydeeztoday at 8:15 PM

not unless you can afford your own super cluster. Otherwise, the AI you use will own you.

mnbpdxtoday at 8:35 PM

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IshKebabtoday at 7:44 PM

Why would the market want that? Don't be stupid.

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-_-today at 7:33 PM

That's the premise behind Workshop Labs! https://workshoplabs.ai