For a while I judged these desktop agents by the logo wall, how many of my tools they claimed to plug into. Wrong number to care about. The one that stuck earned it a different way. I had it run a sprint-review sweep every morning across linear, github…

For most of my real tasks the answer lives across three or four apps. A single 'what do i tell this customer' pulls from gmail, a drive doc, and a slack thread, and not one of those is the chat window i'm typing the question into. i asked c…

counted it once last quarter: roughly 3 hours just pulling inputs before i opened a single slide. Last month's metrics out of notion, the roadmap state from linear, founder check-in notes sitting in granola, the open investor threads in gmail. None…

Counted it last week: one monday review had me opening 6 apps and copy-pasting between all of them, while a chatbot sat in a 7th tab handing me summaries i still had to go act on. that's the part the 'ai is useless' crowd is actually right …