Five Things AI: Personal AI Factory, Faithful Obedience, AI Economy, Project Vend, Agentic AI Backlash

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The last week I spent some time dabbling around with personal AI assistants and agents. It’s quite interesting how quickly new products are getting launched left and right. We’ve seen automagic app development like lovable and bolt and I have used these two products quite a bit. Yesterday string.com was launched, which allows you to build your own agents by just prompting it. It’s part of the Pipedream offering and I quite like it. We are entering a phase where you no longer have to say “I which I could code this!”, you can just use your imagination and then have the code generated for you automagically. Will it always be perfect? Probably not. But you’ll get a working demo and can then evaluate what to do next. I stopped coding 20 years ago or so and quite enjoy building stuff with the help of AI-based tools to play around with it for a while before building something else. It just takes a few minutes and not days or weeks. It’s so convenient. And so powerful.

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