Mark Zuckerberg's Muse personal AI agent is a work accessory designed by people who don't do real work
THE SO WHAT
Meta pitching Muse as a universal work agent underscores the gap between consumer-grade assistants and the messy, permissioned systems where real work lives. Treat these launches as UX experiments and data funnels—your actual leverage comes from wiring agents into your own systems of record, not waiting for a horizontal assistant to understand your workflows.
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