Ben Thompson

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518 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 3d ago

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TBPN · Harvey's Margin Whiplash, Human Powered Agents, McLaren Rebrand, Insects > Humans? | Ben Thompson, Gagan Biyani, Alex Ratner, Peter Kalogiannis, Daniel Petkevich · 22 Sep 2026 podcast

Arguably, the single core use case for my assistant here is package processing, like actually bringing stuff in, opening it up like the it was embarrassing the amount of packages I would get that were just not opened. voice-verified

It's like, yeah. voice-verified

Because this is like the final boss for e-commerce. voice-verified

Like, bring me on drone delivery, please. voice-verified

I bought this for a reason. voice-verified

And even if you deliver it in a few hours or the next day, like, the pressing of the reason to buy it passed. voice-verified

And then it doesn't come up until you actually need it a few months later. voice-verified

And then you can't find it because the box knows what happened. voice-verified

So this is like you're honing in on it. voice-verified

Like, actually open the boxes. voice-verified

Actually make me say what this is for, where it goes. voice-verified

actually process returns and so i don't have to deal with that crap but the but then also to the home inventory point like this is the i felt so dumb writing about this but it's like i love it yeah well people it people absolutely loved it like for a pay thing like would like mildly viral yeah but the idea was so i moved back to america from taiwan for being in taiwan for 20 years uh voice-verified

not recommended like i hadn't moved in a long time moving cross country but the worst thing was actually stuff showed up in three tranches because i kept thinking oh i should only take this i can leave everything behind and i go back oh actually i should have brought this what i should have done is just move the whole house like it would have been much easier but anyhow so just a general disaster all the way around but stuff shows up and i need to put it away yeah voice-verified

I can't ask someone else to put it away because if they put it away, I won't know where anything is. voice-verified

So there is this huge, this, this sort of gap in, I had someone able to put it away, but I wouldn't have known where it was if they put it away. voice-verified

That's the home inventory app. voice-verified

They put it away. voice-verified

And because it's their job, they actually catalog everything and where it is. voice-verified

And now I can just ask, I can do it all by voice. voice-verified

Say, Hey bot, where's this? voice-verified

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