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How much should you tell your AI agent?

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How much should you tell your AI agent?

The Vergecast

10 HOURS AGO
The Vergecast

The Vergecast

10 HOURS AGO
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The next big thing in AI, at least if you ask the tech companies, is assistant agents. David and The Verge's Allison Johnson have both been testing products like Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots, and startups like Instinct, in an effort to find out how much you ...

Highlights

David Pierce and Allison Johnson test AI agents that work through messages, browsers, and connected accounts, asking when convenience becomes worth the loss of control, privacy, or human judgment.
05:31
The simplest possible way to get things done
11:13
More capability also means more complexity
14:30
Muse is almost too good at shopping
21:21
Friction may not be the enemy
26:19
AI tools belong in a toolkit
35:40
More data makes AI better—and riskier
39:18
Use one card and check it every day
42:01
A souped-up Google Alert

Chapters

What AI agents are for
00:02
Why messaging works for bounded tasks
07:24
Convenience, work, and the value of friction
13:28
How much access should an agent get?
30:58

Transcript

David Pierce: Hello, and welcome to the VergeCast, a flagship podcast of secure password vaults in your text messaging app. I'm your friend David Pierce, and today on the show, we're going to talk about agentic AI messaging systems. So there's been all the...