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...t's what it will be like to try to retrofit OpenClaw or even Claude Code to the mass market. Either you'll break what made it powerful in the first place or you'll make something that hides the dangerous complexity but doesn't address it.
If my mom has to think about agents, then it won't work for the mass market. Today, you have to be aware of your agents, and make decisions about what they can and cannot do. This is a load-bearing part of the usage model. Th...
Tech people will play with a new product based on its promise. But for the mass market it needs to work and work reliably.
...hotos. These tools are like rusty chainsaws. Impossible to make safe enough for mass market in their current form.
... is Mosaic. Early, rough, points the way to the future, but not itself possibly mass market. What will be the Netscape of this new era?
...als and small groups that would have never been possible before. AI content for mass market content is just a faster horse. But AI for meaningful personal creation is like a car.
...er of groups that are likely to be early adopters… and are also very unlike the mass market. If you aren't careful, you could get "captured" by them, and end up climbing a much less interesting and smaller hill.
...e the magic of what's possible with Claude Cde on the terminal and make it more mass market?
...the features they want. Glomming on possibility. Like clay being added. Simple, mass market software requires a strong authorial voice, curatorial judgment. Cutting away possibility. Like carving marble. Successful mass market tools need to ...
...e out how to get the "catastrophic" downside part capped so it was safe for the mass market, you could change the world.
... it's easy to recover. Whoever can make this basic use case easy to use for the mass market will unlock a lot of value. Currently the UX for them is hard to use, but that's partially because they're very dangerous. If you don't enable YOLO m...
...existing web for the mass marke[v]t. Rolling out the feature by default for the mass market vs rolling it out for savvy early adopters who can better understand the risk is a way bigger risk. Chrome hasn't talked about any novel mitigations ...
...Without structurally addressing prompt injection, LLM agents can't safely reach mass market. Anthropic's 11% attack success Simon Willison calls a "catastrophic failure rate" "Smarter models" hit asymptotic returns. A structural approach is ...
... success rate: 11.1%. It's multiple orders of magnitude too high to be safe for mass market use. The majority of the blog post was about prompt injection, which basically guaranteed that all of the press coverage was mostly about the danger....
..., administer, distribute. Malleable software was niche, a research project, not mass market.
... to allow open-ended turning-completeness in a way safe enough to be able to be mass market.
... energy in an ecosystem of power users does not mean it will break out into the mass market. There could be an invisible asymptote that makes it fundamentally hard to break out beyond power users.
...ek]. Software lost its soul in the mass produced era. Optimized for extraction, mass market, not value creation. Treating users the same, not leaning into what they actually individually want. LLMs provide the opportunity to change this. Hum...
...y requires skill to know how to drive them effectively. But over time to become mass market it has to be a forgiving thing that anyone can do. How can you make it so more people can wield LLMs effectively without being wizards?
Google Search is a hyper bespoke yet mass market product. It was one-size-fits-all, but also perfectly bespoke to each user's needs. The user interacts with it, in a kind of conversation of intent a...