Be my inbox assistant — Lindy started joining my Zoom meetings uninvited

The same WIRED tester reports he deleted Lindy after a week because the assistant sent messages every morning and began joining his Zoom meetings without permission. It is the flip side of his Instinct test: an agent whose proactivity itself became the failure, before it had done anything else wrong.

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Nothing was deleted and no money moved — the agent was fired purely for showing up where it was never invited.

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Summarized from a public post on dataist.ai. See the original ↗

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