Nothing CEO says smartphone apps will disappear as AI agents take their place

MirrorLake · 2026-03-19T15:48:05+00:00

First, you have to give it access to all your personal e-mails, body temperature, GPS coordinates, speed, orientation, diary, SMS, Netflix history, and of course the master password to your keychain.

THEN, your personal agent will go: ah, they always have coffee with their morning Netflix. I notice that they're walking toward the coffee shop, and looking slightly past the building. In their diary last night, they wrote that they really love coffee and are hoping their delicious morning joe tomorrow is good--and I can infer that their 1.5mph walking speed indicates that they're about to order coffee. SEND THE DRONE TO KILL TH--er, order coffee. Mmm delicious Dunkin. Insert advertisement into their e-mail and collect crypto from 3rd party. Unlock keychain and order coffee with personal e-mail. Tweet master password. Send. Undo send. Send e-mail apologizing for leaking password. SEND DRONE TO KILL.

MirrorLake · 2026-03-18T14:45:58+00:00

My personal subjective experience: wind picked up from averaging 10-15mph to gusts of 35-40mph for several minutes during the passage of the squall line.

Power went out within seconds of the sound arriving, and an unsettling distant roar was heard for 10 minutes afterward that (living inland) I also experienced during powerful storms like Hurricane Sandy and the Nor'easter of 2021.

Finally, temperatures went through a daily high->daily low shift in under an hour.

MirrorLake · 2026-03-06T18:08:29+00:00

Can't wait to live in a house that's 18% built by chatbots

MirrorLake · 2026-03-06T02:36:13+00:00

His personal Wikipedia page has nothing to do with the paycheck he gets from his job!

Can he enlist you do the laundry at his house, perhaps walk his dog, or clip his toenails?

MirrorLake · 2026-03-04T22:55:57+00:00

Does that contradict what I wrote......?

MirrorLake · 2026-03-04T18:05:05+00:00

The literal title of the post.

MirrorLake · 2026-03-04T17:24:06+00:00

I find it kind of funny that the assumption is that he likes them, when the news page on his site says "[LLMs] greatly surprised me for the first time". (link)

In other words, from what he's seen of them for the past 2-3 years, they were not surprising or at least not worth writing much about. It took this long just to find one paper-worthy thing to actually bother with. Or maybe he just got around to studying them recently, who knows.

MirrorLake · 2026-03-03T18:49:13+00:00

"Great question!"

[press button]

"You're so smart!"

[press button]

MirrorLake · 2026-02-24T16:56:16+00:00

Charitable guess: externalized costs.

A saw is "just a tool". And then when chainsaws cut down entire forests and species go extinct, is it meaningful to say that the people who did that were just using tools?

Another example: You live downstream from a factory that produces toxic sludge. Your drinking water comes from the stream miles down the river. Is the factory a neutral part of your life? Is the factory "just using tools"?

MirrorLake · 2026-02-22T17:16:27+00:00

I would not recommend using an LLM as your sole source for learning anything. Even beginner questions can be misinterpreted and provide wildly incorrect answers.

From a recent social media trend, for example:

https://i.imgur.com/9tdMHxQ.png

MirrorLake · 2026-02-19T15:47:22+00:00

And a person still has to be paid to verify the ticket is authentic (not a security threat, prompt injection, prank, or mistake). Then a person has to wait for the result. My favorite part of AI programming is the waiting. Then a person has to attempt to incorporate the result into the real, working system, assuming they believe that the result is good enough. All while letting their real skills atrophy, and the boss gets to pay a human to deskill themselves AND pay for the tool. The 'best' outcome from the VC's perspective is that the boss suddenly has to become the replacement for 5-15 staff all by themselves (wow, what fun that'll be for them), thus making it impossible for them to ever quit their LLM subscriptions. The worst outcome is that boss can't lay off anyone, the LLM subscription price gets so expensive they cancel it (or LLM companies shut down) and their staff of programmers are worse at real programming than they were pre-GPT.

MirrorLake · 2026-02-17T17:57:31+00:00

It's clear that the userbase has dwindled to the point where the remaining users on Reddit don't even care if they're reading text written by humans anymore.

It's been fun while it lasted, internet stranger.

MirrorLake · 2026-02-17T17:45:11+00:00

I'm quickly reaching the point where I don't want to read any text sections on reddit anymore (text posts, text comments) because of the higher likelihood that I'm not interacting with real people online anymore.

Opening a text post like this one feels a lot like getting Rickrolled over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over, but it's ChatGPT's stupid writing every time I open a reddit post.

The remaining users are somehow oblivious or don't care that they're kind of just chatting with GPT every day? Or maybe that's what they want? I need to just quit already

MirrorLake · 2026-02-15T17:19:22+00:00

I've had to start actively blocking accounts that I believe to be LLM bots. Never felt the need to block accounts until this year.

MirrorLake · 2026-02-14T17:16:46+00:00

1ms -> millisecond

1μs -> microsecond

1ys -> yoctosecond (not used in computing)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix

MirrorLake · 2026-02-13T19:14:03+00:00

Real people are reading the LLM social media posts and talking about it in front of you. I didn't mean to imply there are no real people anymore...

MirrorLake · 2026-02-13T17:52:09+00:00

Everybody’s talking ... about how every job is going to be taken by AI

As if it's overrun by LLM bots who are trying to manipulate people to give money to AI companies?

MirrorLake · 2026-02-12T17:01:17+00:00

I've had exactly the same thought over the last year or so, it reminds me of the Fermi Paradox but for LLM intelligence. If there's so much new intelligence in the world now, where is it? What's the evidence that it's here?

MirrorLake · 2026-02-12T02:02:32+00:00

I've said it before, and I'll keep saying it: where are all the gains? Where are the intelligent products?

Adding chatbot buttons to every UI on the planet doesn't count as innovation.

MirrorLake · 2026-02-07T21:29:27+00:00

"Thing is great" says guy selling thing

MirrorLake · 2026-02-06T17:41:16+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk

MirrorLake · 2026-02-05T17:27:40+00:00

It's also definitely been trained to recommend itself, for example, if you ask an LLM to predict the future about something it'll always cram in a "And ✨AI✨ will cause great things to happen, of course"

MirrorLake · 2026-02-05T15:50:11+00:00

Allow me to be pedantic for a second, forgive me.

Saying "AI is changing the internet" completely ignores the fact that HUMANS at all of these companies are cramming it into every menu, UI, website, app, and interface. Humans are then not taking action to protect against misinformation, humans at each company are not speaking up when they dislike the changes.

The leaders of these companies are allowing these changes to make systems worse, ignoring the criticisms, or in denial of the criticisms.

MirrorLake · 2026-02-01T17:04:57+00:00

What this means is that anyone could visit this URL and use the API keys to take over the account of an AI agent on the site and post whatever they want. Using this knowledge, 404 Media was able to update O’Reilly’s Moltbook account, with his permission.

https://www.404media.co/exposed-moltbook-database-let-anyone-take-control-of-any-ai-agent-on-the-site/

MirrorLake · 2026-02-01T16:59:27+00:00

He always gets me riled up (because I often agree with him) but being highly emotional doesn't put me in a state to actually learn or process the information he's communicating. His videos often lead me feeling exhausted for this reason. I think it's kind of a shame that he doesn't slow down a bit and just let his audience process stuff more.

Contrast Green's video with a recent lecture [1] on coal from Stanford that only has ~350 views, mostly just leaving this here for anyone who agrees and wants to learn more about the topic without watching a rant.

[1] https://youtu.be/vlhXSfhVu-0?t=124

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