AI: Fragility of today's Claude Cowork type AI Agent Apps. RTZ 1061
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...realities like memory management, highlight a longer road to resilient AI Agents and AGI
AI: Fragility of today's Claude Cowork type AI Agent Apps. RTZ 1061...realities like memory management, highlight a longer road to resilient AI Agents and AGIMichael ParekhApr 19, 20262ShareThe Bigger Picture, Sunday, April 19, 2026The Bigger Picture I'd like to unpack today is how memory fragility is a key bumpy road for today's AI Agents. And my take on how long our best AI companies will take researching and commercializing solutions for it all. Likely done over stages across several years. Taking longer than we’d like. Let's get started.In last Sunday’s Bigger Picture “Working out daily with AI and AI Agents”, AI-RTZ #1054, I outlined the ten point takeaways on where we are on practically using AI Agents for every day work. The main AI I use every day, Anthropic’s Claude Cowork, is likely one of the fastest growing computer applications in recent memory, going from zero to billions in revenue in a handful of months. That’s one of the best such AI Agent productivity systems for non-coders I use intensively. Running on a generously-loaded Mac Mini — the kind now stretched to 12+ week waits per the WSJ, ahead of a possible M5 Apple Silicon upgrade. For me, my current daily work with the best of today’s AI apps and systems, underline how similar these AI systems are today to the early PCs. Those nascent days of fragile Microsoft MS-DOS based personal computers in the early 1980s come back immediately. As one works through the first sessions with Anthropic’s Claude Cowork r...