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Claude Duet is the first personal-assistant-type harness that feels useful

What HN thinks

Everyone has tried five AI butlers this month and trusts none of them with a credit card.

Useful only with risky access
Several argue real personal-assistant value needs your identity, money and data, which runs into prompt-injection and exfiltration risks; some limit the blast radius instead.
Duet finally clicks
Users coming from GrokBot, Muse and Dots say Duet's channels, terse answers and strong model make it the first assistant that actually works for them.
Build your own or skip it
Others prefer self-built harnesses, dismiss the hype as a passing novelty, or question running proprietary code from frontier labs.

Consensus: No real consensus; most agree the underlying model quality is the main differentiator and that security trade-offs limit what these agents can safely do.

Recommended in the comments

GrokBot (product): Some users report smooth trip planning, research and recurring summaries with few errors.
Hermes (product): One commenter says it has been hard to beat lately.
OpenClaw (tool): Used with dedicated email and phone to avoid exposing personal credentials.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 6 hours ago.

Points: 101
Comments: 79
Best rank: #8
Posted: 2026-10-29 by nathanfig
Category: Ai ml

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