Flo Crivello@AltimorNovember 10, 2025
Not arguing that sending your avatar to a meeting is rude if that's not the expectation. But ... other than that, I have a different take, here.
If this person's avatar is plugged into their personal knowledge base or prepped specifically for this meeting, the interaction here is very different from what you'll get from talking to Claude. That's a big deal! This is not a generic LLM.
The future shock here is a little like video calls. I can't tell you how many people said to me, "I'll never do video calls, it's just better to talk on the phone" when we were starting Daily. Those people were wrong. They all do video calls all the time, today.
"Sending your avatar" is going to be a totally common thing to do. And, in many cases, we'll just all send our avatars. No humans needed in the meeting.
We frequently see in our logs, these days, one of our customers placing an outbound voice agent call, and that call being answered by a voice agent from another of our customers.
The first time I noticed this, it was a future shock moment for me, too. But think about it this way: if you have a package to deliver and you're trying to schedule a time to do that, using a voice agent is very efficient, for everyone involved. And if someone wants to deliver a package to you, it's efficient for your voice agent to commit to a delivery time on your behalf. So why wouldn't both agents just talk to each other?
Giving/hearing product feedback is not all that different from scheduling package deliveries. :-)
Two humans. One human. No humans. The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed.
Flo Crivello@AltimorMet with a user this morning, who sent an AI avatar to stand in for him. Couple of reactions:
* A little bit of future shock
* Quickly followed by "omg so fucking rude." Obviously defeats the purpose of a user chat. If I wanted an AI's opinion I'd just go chat with Claude
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