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The agent woke up before you did

The last assumption of user-centered design just fell — and four companies pushed it at once.

Adrian Levy

13 min read23 hours ago

Press enter or click to view image in full size Four Agents, One Sleeper. Four companies, four hands, the same editorial judgment — delivered before the principal opens a screen. The convergence is not abstract. It is in your bedroom.

I woke up on Wednesday to a summary I had not asked for.

Three overdue invoices in QuickBooks, ranked by amount. A calendar conflict I would have caught around ten, maybe eleven — two meetings booked over the same hour, one of them with a client whose name the system had matched to an open contract in HubSpot. A Slack thread in a channel I had muted three weeks ago, surfaced because someone had tagged a deliverable that Duet knew I owned.

I had not opened a single application. I had not typed a prompt.…