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It is not lack of imagination, it is the lack of the social need for the performative aspect of an assistant.
There are all these douchebags that use to have to hire a human assistant in order to tell other douchebags that they have an assistant.
Now every wanna be douchebag can just get a mac mini. Of course, that is going to be super popular.
Think about how openclaw can automatically send email to book guests on your podcast that no one watches.
It is a game changer. It can even automatically send email to other people who have podcasts and youtube channels no one watches to come on your podcast no one watches and you can both discuss what a game changer openclaw is.
It can even then watch the podcasts for both of you so now you both have viewers!
Because the trends are bullshit and nutrition is just not that complicated.
The trends are a strange type of nutrition entertainment for people to read and then ignore in practice. There is some kind of psychological comfort in the knowing you can switch to oatmeal next week while gorging yourself at the Cheesecake Factory.
Oatmeal is good for you. News at a 11. We have known this for at least that last 50 years.
Or it just really is AI.
Maybe Dario Amodei saying this tsunami is coming and people are arguing it is not a tsunami and just a trick of the light are wrong.
We have had a giant bubble in white collar bullshit jobs the last 15 years and AI is going to pop that bubble incredible fast.
That doesn't mean the brilliant programmer is going to be replaced by Claude Code. The brilliant programmer type + AI what is going to do the popping, put more people out of work and massively gain from it financially themselves.
In other words, an extension of the same process that has been going on for the last 30 years.