David Pawlan

Assistant Benchmark is live!

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feedback on how to make this as helpful & insightful as possible for everyone would be appreciated 🙏

My picks for AI agent events in NYC + SF this week (Nov 9–15):

NYC
Nov 9 — Publishing on the Agentic Web
@betaworks on how publishers get traffic, credit and revenue when agents are browsing luma.com/y2fcwzol

Nov 12 — Your Agent, Every Inbox
@monad brings a live walkthrough of an agent working across inboxes, how it works & how you can set it up yourself
luma.com/r7lmfyiy

SF
Nov 11 — What Comes After AI Agents?
@FounderCoHo + AWS Builder Loft bring together builders from OpenAI, DeepMind, NVIDIA and Amazon. luma.com/founde-avcl1

Nov 12 — Interchange
@CoinflowLabs hosts a dinner for builders working on agents that book, buy and pay. luma.com/er9bqflr

All free, approval required.

Who am I missing?

Apple is worried about falling behind while personal agent startups are building their entire business inside iMessage...

It's hard to imagine a company better positioned, which makes it even more surprising that they're still chasing the leaders

People are showing there's demand for an assistant you can just text. Apple controls iMessage AND makes the iPhone, Watch, AirPods, and Mac

They have an incredible opportunity to build a personal agent that works across all of them

The startups are proving the demand, let's see if Apple can capitalize (or if they end up having to acquire a competitor)

people often confuse being aware of what they don't know with not knowing enough

just got coffee with a friend who feels deeply behind on AI agents

she asked me questions about everything from context files to privacy policies

she clearly knew a lot more than she thought she did

it’s wild how learning more can make you feel further behind bc you start seeing entire categories of things you didn't even know existed

a great day-to-day use case on giving my agent access to my text messages

i forgot my buddy's apartment number. i know he's told me it so many times before, so instead of bugging him AGAIN, i just asked @pally to tell me

it searched our past texts and found the apt number within seconds

such a quick solve for the "i hate to ask again" dilemma