When Your AI Knows Too Little: The Hidden Bottleneck in Personal Agents
Lunch is a simple word. In an AI assistant demo, “order me lunch” looks like the kind of request that should be easy by now. Open the food app. Pick something. Pay. Done. The button-clicking part is no longer the miracle. The problem is everything the user did not say. Do they avoid peanuts? Do they usually order from Tuantuan or Chilemei? Is “light lunch” about calories, price, time, or avoiding the food coma before a meeting? Should the assistant ask first, or does asking defeat the whole point of assistance? And if the user says no, does the assistant actually stop, or does it “helpfully” continue doing the wrong thing with the confidence of a junior consultant holding a fresh slide deck? ...