Category: Little Guys 🥹
‘Little Guys’ are the emerging UX paradigm for AI; tiny, characterful agents that turn large language models into visible companions. From pixel butlers to desk-top pals, personified interfaces reveal intent and invite trust.
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Apple Intelligence Is Fine
I got Apple Intelligence on my MacBook today. It works—right-click to summarise, rewrite, or proofread text. But this once-magical tech is already mundane, baked seamlessly into workflows.
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The New Economic Entertainment | 2428
The future of entertainment is interactive, monetised, intertwined with AI and social media, gaming and gambling.
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🤖 Milo 2.0
If you squint at work explored 15 years ago, you can already see the shape of the future.
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Virtual Friends, Real Feelings
One of the things I’ve been doing recently when reading about any new company that’s making AI products is to mentally sort them into one of three categories: Tools, Assistants,…
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Little Computer People | 2411
Right now AI is the worst it’s ever going to be. It costs about £60 a day to house a little computer person powered by an LLM in a virtual…
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Making Friends with AI
It’s worth exploring whether a Tamagotchi style lifecycle design pattern could be applied to AI assistants to help users maintain healthy emotional distance.
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AI Agent Metaphors | 2404
Like the Metaverse, history is repeating itself with zero contact with the last time a lot of smart people had conversations about AI Agents.
