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    The case for AI agents that suggest tasks before you ask

    A post argues that blank text boxes are a major adoption barrier for consumer AI agents: most people don't know what they can ask AI to do. It calls for proactive suggestions based on the user's context.

    Justine MooreJM
    Sarah CatanzaroSC
    Ben TossellBT
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    TLDR

    One post calls for more attention to human inputs and how people interact with AI, alongside the attention paid to model outputs. Another argues that agents should suggest tasks based on a user's context rather than leave people wondering what to type. In a follow-up reply, that author highlights TownAI, saying it reads your inbox and suggests tasks to automate or workflows to set up before onboarding is finished.

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    Sentiment

    Positive88.9%11.1%Negative

    Summary

    Many accounts agreed that trouble prompting consumer AI agents reflects a product design gap rather than user skill, while others raised privacy concerns or dismissed the barrier outright.

    Based on 46 sentiment-bearing replies from 45 accounts across 2 conversations.

    Sentiment

    Positive88.9%11.1%Negative

    Summary

    Many accounts agreed that trouble prompting consumer AI agents reflects a product design gap rather than user skill, while others raised privacy concerns or dismissed the barrier outright.

    Based on 46 sentiment-bearing replies from 45 accounts across 2 conversations.

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    6 Sources

    Sarah Catanzaro@sarahcat21The rise of AI assistants is showing that while we’ve thought so carefully about LLM/agent outputs, we still need to think more carefully about human inputs and how we may try to interact with AI22d
    Justine Moore@venturetwinsThis is one of the biggest barriers to adoption for consumer agents. Most everyday people look at a blank text box and have no idea what they can even ask AI to do. Agents should be proactively suggesting tasks based on your context. So well articulated from @gdb 👇22d
    Ben Dickson@bendee983If you’re in the tech AI bubble, I strongly recommend you go and talk to average people and see how they use and perceive AI. Most people don’t know what a CLI is, let alone think that CLI is the future interface of all applications. They’re not automating the heck out of their everyday tasks. They’re using the same apps they used three years ago. To them, AI is mostly advanced search plus a good consultant for health and shopping. There’s a huge gap between the AI power users and average people. And bridging that gap presents a huge business opportunity.21d
    Ben Tossell@bentosselli hate ai product folks blaming users for not being able to use their products well enough skill issue, sure. but skill gap for you to fix if the products so good for some people, get everyone to be great20d

    6 Sources

    Sarah Catanzaro@sarahcat21The rise of AI assistants is showing that while we’ve thought so carefully about LLM/agent outputs, we still need to think more carefully about human inputs and how we may try to interact with AI22d
    Justine Moore@venturetwinsThis is one of the biggest barriers to adoption for consumer agents. Most everyday people look at a blank text box and have no idea what they can even ask AI to do. Agents should be proactively suggesting tasks based on your context. So well articulated from @gdb 👇22d
    Ben Dickson@bendee983If you’re in the tech AI bubble, I strongly recommend you go and talk to average people and see how they use and perceive AI. Most people don’t know what a CLI is, let alone think that CLI is the future interface of all applications. They’re not automating the heck out of their everyday tasks. They’re using the same apps they used three years ago. To them, AI is mostly advanced search plus a good consultant for health and shopping. There’s a huge gap between the AI power users and average people. And bridging that gap presents a huge business opportunity.21d
    Ben Tossell@bentosselli hate ai product folks blaming users for not being able to use their products well enough skill issue, sure. but skill gap for you to fix if the products so good for some people, get everyone to be great20d