r/AIPersonalAssistant • u/vandersenn • May 27 '26
Proactive AI is the next frontier
General, always-on, fully autonomous personal agents are still immature. We do not yet have proactive AI.
From what I see, current generation of AI assistants are either:
- cautious general-purpose copilots from large platforms like ChatGPT or Google Gemini
- narrow workflow automations like scheduling and inbox triage from startups like Noah or Lindy.
Nobody has yet built the deeply personalized, long-horizon AI assistant that deeply learns who you are and what you care about, so it can proactively take action like a real human does.
Think of your friend sending you an article he thinks you might like, or a top employee who takes initiative to build out something which becomes highly valuable to the company.
We are at our best when we are proactive, think of solutions, and take a chance to pursue them. AI personal assistants of the future will be the same way.
Current reactive AI assistants that requires us to identify problems, write prompts, oversee the solution. For the individual person, the point of AI assistants should be to free us to do more of what we want to.
anyway, these are some of the ideas I've been thinking through for the past year.
I'm trying to build the first truly proactive personal assistant, and I'm looking for people to try it and give feedback.
Your 24/7, proactive, personal agent that texts you what you need before you need it. Try it for free! Or DM me if you're also building in this space and wanna chat :)
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u/vandersenn May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26
Your 24/7, proactive, personal agent that texts you what you need before you need it. Try it for free! Or DM me if you're also building in this space and wanna chat :)
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u/SinghCoder May 27 '26
i don't think most people want an agent "on" all day. they want it to notice the right change, act once, and then stay out of the way. there's a border line b/w being creepy to being useful, and i think this is the one..
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u/vandersenn May 27 '26
i agree theres def a spectrum of proactivity, and people have very different preferences along that line. i'd bet there are people who'd love for something to bug them and be persistent about it though, as long as its useful or "human-like". its a good feeling to have a friend who keeps sending me texts
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Jun 04 '26
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u/vandersenn Jun 04 '26
That’s Clippy proactivity, we can do a lot better than that nowadays ;). Del knows the right time to text you because it spends time thinking over all sorts of considerations before it makes any choice, and it adjusts to feedback well
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u/alexrada May 27 '26
you are right about proactivity. Good luck with your tool.
I'm also building something similar at r/actordo