one of the coolest american companies. i wonder what private equity group owns it

Rant that no one asked for: My general take about consumer AI is that 99% of the things we've seen so far are super far-removed from reality Most people feel like they don't have money to spend right now, so the use-cases around agents booking flights or trips or booking reservations or shopping just don't appeal to the average American consumer I would argue that things that consumers purchase or "do" frequently enough (like ordering on Amazon, or calling Ubers, etc.) were obvious/annoying enough/frequent enough use-cases where we built amazing software UI/UX over the last decade that's been optimized to near ultimate efficiency that adding AI or agents on top would actually be making it *less* efficient. Like really *worth-it* use cases are generally "one-clickable" by great consumer products/platforms already There's a lot of magical moments/wow factors/sci-fi things with agents that come from super annoying workflows (like booking flights or wrangling personal errand stuff in gmail or etc.) but are just not frequent enough for the average person. They're actually the long-tail. For example, 20% of the world's population has flown on an airplane at least once in their lifetime, meaning 80% of people globally have never set foot on a plane. Only 11%-15% of the global population flies in any given year! This is not me saying that consumer AI is dumb, I'm actually extremely excited and optimistic, but it kind of goes back to things we've always known about consumer, which is: 1. Save/make consumers money 2. Make consumers entertained or famous (And, of course, vices) Even like, regardless of your views on prediction markets/sports betting, I think you have to understand that comes from a place of the average person feeling like they 1) don't have enough so 2) they want to do what they can to jump the socioeconomic rungs Anyway, there's an extremely *wide* space of opportunity and I'm very excited to see the absolutely insane new AI/innovative stuff that builders come up with, but also I really want to see things that aren't just dressed up versions of 2010s prosumer/productivity software (and the problems that came with it) P.S. The 90/10/1 rule still applies to consumer: most consumers want to *consume* (and lurk) rather than create!

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my media consumption diet has already altered dramatically with si. i still consume social content but less than ever before (i spend like 10 min on tiktok & reels just to see what the latest feelings are in the zeitgeist if you will) & for everything else, it’s all generated for me by my agents. a personalized newspaper in the morning with a fun podcast if i ever want to listen instead. if i come across a youtube video, podcast, article, or tweet, i just send it to my agent, i never actually read it raw. my agent gives me ways to think about the content & how it relates to anything i’m working on or thinking about too. it’s quite beautiful. i’ll share a page soon so everyone else can consume my personal newspaper too. if we turned this into a product would you all use it?

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People called me crazy for this take. That’s fine. Look at the quotes and replies on this post. History has vindicated me.

Amazon banning agents is the first opportunity I've seen since Amazon was founded for a startup to create an Amazon competitor. People will want agents to buy stuff for them. It will be one of the main use cases. And they won't want to use some Amazon-supplied agent to do it.

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I’ve wanted to make this app for years and finally did BoomBap lets you feel music through your phone. It syncs custom haptics to any song so you can feel every drum hit and bass rumble. Watch this video in the app to try it (link in reply)

I am not joking when I say this. Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over. AI music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all AI music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago. Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.