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We're All Building a Single Digital Assistant

2026-04-15 Science & Technology
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There's tons of confusion about what we're all building towards with Personal AI. Are we building Agents? AI Harnesses? To what end? In this video I lay why I think we're all heading towards a single place that we should start getting ready for now. I think getting this early will put you 1-3 years ahead of everyone. --- PAI repository (open source): https://github.com/danielmiessler/PAI The 2016 thesis the video builds on: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/real-internet-of-things https://danielmiessler.com/blog/personal-ai-assistants-will-soon-interfaces-world The Personal AI Maturity Model (shown in the video): https://danielmiessler.com/blog/personal-ai-maturity-model PAI and the single Digital Assistant: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/personal-ais-will-mediate-everything https://danielmiessler.com/blog/ais-next-big-thing-is-digital-assistants https://danielmiessler.com/blog/ai-powered-visual-sensors-will-be-wielded-by-digital-assistants-to-build-us-custom-uis Current state → Ideal state (The Algorithm): https://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-last-algorithm https://danielmiessler.com/blog/nobody-is-talking-about-generalized-hill-climbing Harnesses, agents, and AI system design: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/good-and-bad-harness-engineering https://danielmiessler.com/blog/bitter-lesson-engineering https://danielmiessler.com/blog/principals-vs-agents TELOS / framework for human understanding: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/introducing-substrate Human 3.0 and activation: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/human-3-creator-revolution https://danielmiessler.com/blog/its-time-for-full-activation Fabric (the pattern framework mentioned): https://danielmiessler.com/blog/fabric-origin-story https://github.com/danielmiessler/fabric How everything fits together: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/how-my-projects-fit-together The main Personal AI Infrastructure post: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/personal-ai-infrastructure Human 3.0 platform: https://human3.unsupervised-learning.com Newsletter: https://unsupervised-learning.com

Top Comments (10)

@vexy1987 2026-04-15

Looking forward to PAI v5 Daniel. Keep it up! :)

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@unsupervised-learning 2026-04-16

BTW, those token costs are the raw costs if I wasn't using a subscription. :) Not what I'm actually paying. This is why I have an Anthropic subscription. : )

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@k-leemarks 2026-04-15

You continue to be my favorite voice in this space

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@sonarun 2026-04-16

Wow! I am itching for PAI 5.0 -- Great work!

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@HosonZes 2026-04-30

I like to see when you do stuff in Kai/Pai. More how-tos would be great. Been using Pai for a while but just "re-invented" Karpathy's LLM Wiki since I couldn't reliably figure out, whether there was already something for knowledge synthesis in there. You just said, it is already in there. o_0 I guess short videos or a longer one demonstrating how you use the different aspects would be a 11/10 😅

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@OKIN_17 2026-04-21

Loved that custom interfaces point. Great vid

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@BitByteTribe 2026-04-18

You are spot on here, all my harnesses, workflows and capabilities boil down to this encapsulation. You've articulated it so well I just want it yesterday.

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@theoneandonlystanima7018 2026-05-09

Just set it up today. Excited to dig in!

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@JoshDingus 2026-04-18

This is amazing thank you so much for sharing. It is totally stressful trying to keep up with this stuff. You’re a trusted voice and super excited to try out 5.0 !

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@drewshady2 2026-04-16

I have been putting together in a hodge podge way what you have built! Excited and going to get this! Thank you for doing what you do!

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