[CamperBob2]

Yes, it's a great use case for using local AI agents to shop for the best deal on the consumer's behalf.

Or did you mean Google's AI agent, or hotels.com, or somebody else with a built-in conflict of interest? Well, in that case, no thanks.

[vineyardmike]

Will local AI agents be the "linux desktop" of the next generation? Because as I understand it, next year is gunna be the year that local AI agents become a thing for the normies.

[CamperBob2]

For the average desktop user, Linux never had anything to offer over Windows. The last nail in the coffin was obvious to me at the time: Linux didn't make any headway when Microsoft started shoving the first ridiculously-bad versions of Windows 10 down everybody's throat by abusing a security update channel. At that point it became clear that there was simply no demand for Linux in the desktop market except at a niche hobbyist level. Stockholm Syndrome was in full effect among Windows users, and it still is, and, well, I guess that's just the way it goes.

The enshittification of the Internet is even worse, though. I think personalized search and content curation through the use of local AI agents may be the only way to buck that trend.

I want something that will do for companies like Google, Amazon, and the news media what SpamBayes did for email: make it useful again. Local filtering by a tireless and incorruptible proxy whose interests are aligned with my own is the only way forward IMHO. The only question is how long it will take. My rather-useless guess is more than a year, less than ten years.