If you downgrade ChatGPT from Dots-available Pro to no-Dots Plus and have a Dot enabled, it goes to sleep, but keeps sending you messages to which you can’t reply, and you can’t delete the Dot. OpenAI, this seems like a bug. PS: I still use Dots in my Enterprise account for work, but I use Muse for my personal agent, and I don’t want two personal agents because I tried that and it’s way too noisy.

One reason companies aren’t realizing massive profits from deploying AI is that the rest of the world has changed too. For example, in professional services clients cite AI to push for faster delivery and lower prices. So vendors must do more volume just to stand still.

If you have Muse generate voices for you, ask it for their codenames. I don't have voice mode yet but it's still able to generate and audition voices. It names them "like paint swatches." For example: "Absorbed Paintbox" and "Gleeful Pillow." Ridiculous but funny.

Got 1Password for Agents in Muse today. Had my Muse monitoring until this arrived, and it just let me know. Setup was dead easy: Click "Connect," sign in to 1Password with QR code. Logins were a big point of friction to wider agent use. Hopefully no longer.

Another one: xitter.cf/ai_ae_fan/status/21139…

Got stiffed on a grocery order, no ETA, so sent my Muse to comparison shop and find me a new service. Went through my email, found my order history, and is now building a spreadsheet comparing the price of the items I buy from other vendors. Tough time to be a subpar retailer.

Life got more hectic in the "agentic coding" era because of supervising multiple agents. But in the "personal agent" era I feel the opposite. My personal agents have my back, alert me to anything urgent. Now it feels like I can actually relax. Not perfect yet, but improving.

LLM progress on robotics tasks feels like the early days of GPT models, when few people were paying attention and scaling was early. If capability, speed, and cost continue at the current pace, hard to see how this doesn't transform what's possible for physical AI in the next year. I imagine we'll see lots of startups, including hardware startups, and would definitely purchase a useful little robot powered by an AI to which I already subscribe.

Big spike in interest in Meta's Muse in Japan after its launch there, based on Google Trends data.

Monitoring the situation. Curious how well this 1Password for agents will work.

Muse team, I asked this before, but hoping to get a definitive answer. I love the "Discuss" feature on the Feed. I want to do something similar in a custom news artifact, passing context to the chat. Any way to do this? If so, what do I tell my Muse? If not, can we get this? :)

Consolidating my personal digital life down to Muse + Todoist with Google Workspace for storage, calendar, and email that Muse mostly uses. Keep deleting apps off my phone, building anything I need right in Muse. Keep migrating off Apple apps due to poor agent integration.

AI assistants are much more winner-take-all than chatbots or work/coding agents. I use several AIs for chat and work tasks, picking the right one for each task. But I only use one personal assistant and one work assistant. Tried more, it’s crazy-making.

AI industry jargon all over the place. Models aren’t unsafe, they’re misaligned. No betas, research previews. Not engineers or researchers, members of technical staff. What am I missing?

The full suite of what OpenAI's building with ChatGPT is magical. A client has strict requirements for AI use. Precludes many apps. We discussed it in Slack. Dropped my Dot in the thread and asked for a ChatGPT Site that uses only approved models. Done in under an hour. There were a few hiccups, and typical AI artifacts. First, it got confused about incorporating an OpenAI API key, telling me it could only be done server side, whereas I can and did add one manually in site settings. Second, I asked it to incorporate WebMCP so agents could use it easily, and it wasn't able to properly test this was working. Third, there are lots of little unnecessary text elements and callout boxes all over, all that self-referential stuff that AI loves to add. But overall, pretty awesome. We hit a barrier, discussed solutions, sent my Dot to build something custom to solve the problem, and it built and launched it in less than an hour.

Had Claude polish the design and develop a design language for infographics associated with news items, which Muse then implemented flawlessly. Looking good. Now I just wish I could get the "Discuss" button working (and ideally get a cleaner, more native-looking sidebar icon).

Annoying bug in Muse right now: when it uses buttons, the text it sent along with those buttons doesn't come through, so you only see the buttons and have no idea what they refer to. Filed in Muse but keeps popping up so hopefully someone can jump on this.

Muse feed is good but coverage is light, about one item every two hours. I had Muse build a custom news artifact to augment it. Scans Hacker News, Techmeme, and high-signal X accounts every hour, filters against inclusion criteria, alerts me to anything urgent based on alert criteria. So far, it works really well. It shortlists posts every hour and reads the ones that pass its initial filter, then writes up summaries. It stores everything in whatever database artifacts use (🤷‍♂️) so they're searchable. I'd like to improve the visuals that accompany posts, including by incorporating images associated with the items, and polishing up the infographics. I'd also like the ability to click "Discuss" on an item and discuss it in the chat with my Muse, but it's not clear this is possible. Muse tried it initially, based I guess on how it thought it should work, and it didn't.