https://greycloak.com/tags/meta/Recent content in Meta on GreycloakHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usCopyright © 2023, Vince Wadhwani; all rights reserved.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://greycloak.com/post/2026-09-18-personal-ai-agents-finally-get-consumer-traction/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://greycloak.com/post/2026-09-18-personal-ai-agents-finally-get-consumer-traction/ <p>If you build software with an agent inside it, whether a customer-facing product or an internal tool, the bar for what counts as usable just moved. For most of 2026 the working assumption was that AI agents were a business technology, useful for coding and back-office automation but ignored by ordinary consumers. That assumption is now under pressure. Meta's personal agent, Muse, reached number two on the US iPhone free app chart, behind only ChatGPT, and a wave of practitioners who spend their days evaluating these tools started describing them as genuinely part of their daily routine. The reason matters more than the ranking: the patterns that made Muse work are the ones your own users will soon expect.</p>