I think this year will be the year of desktop AI agents with skills to replicate ourselves. My leading indicator on desktop agents being a "thing" is that boomers like @Pons_ETH are starting to embrace tools like claude cowork. I had a weird thought that we might be replacing ourselves with AI without realizing it. Not skynet vibes but definitely game changing from a day-to-day efficiency standpoint. Hear me out, we've started with generalized desktop agents like cowork to do daily tasks. Maybe its doing spreadsheet edits or writing emails or whatever it is that you do. The cowork agent, at this stage, is just a smart assistant that you are mentoring. What brings this "junior" into a "senior?" Its just experience. The things we have learned over years or decades of time and make us experts. High performers or the 10xer types want to maximize time imo...so they start giving these "smart" generalized agents expert skills (e.g., claude skills & MCPs) to do the things we do every day. They start getting fed the domain knowledge and brain dumps of information over decades of time. Now extrapolate this process with a memory‑persistent agent and stronger models. Within a year, you have basically replicated your entire working brain (at least data wise) and processes (daily tasks) into something like cowork. From there, things get interesting. What if you train this agent up to your exact level of expertise and then layer in your personality and voice? Engineers have joked for years about wanting to replicate themselves. It feels like we might actually be there. You could license yourself, your expert agent, to multiple companies at once. And this is not just an engineer thing.