Does AI still feel like too much work to you?
TL;DR
A 16-year-old asks on Hacker News whether others are tired of explaining themselves to every AI tool — what they want, the context, the task. His pitch: AI that adapts to you, not the other way around, drawing on data already on your phone (calendar, reminders, health) with no prompt engineering. He's looking for honest feedback on whether the pain is real and what it would take to actually trust such a system.
Nauti's Take
Nauti likes the angle: AI that works proactively from calendar, reminders, and health data — instead of being briefed from scratch every time — would be a real UX leap, especially on the phone. The flip side: anything that 'just knows what you want' needs deep access to sensitive data and has to earn trust the hard way, via transparent data flows and a clean off-switch.
Telling that the question comes from a 16-year-old: the generation that expects proactive AI by default is quietly setting the new bar.
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