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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore 1 Notifications Chat Grok Premium Bookmarks Creator Studio Articles Profile More Post alana goyal @alanaagoyal Article See new posts Conversation JB Bakst @jb_bakst Why have email agents taken so long? 4 4 270 Once a month, someone tweets "who's building Cursor or Claude Code for email?" and it goes viral. It's almost a meme at this point. Everyone wants an email agent. But it hasn’t arrived yet. Which feels strange, considering that coding agents went from novelty to industry-transforming over the past eighteen months. And ChatGPT can draft a passable reply to whatever you throw at it. The pieces look like they’re there. And yet, your Monday morning inbox in 2026 looks exactly like it did in 2019 (and 2010, for that matter). Same triage, same context-switching, same dread. 2026 is the year that changes. Doing vs Deciding Software has always been bottlenecked by implementation costs. Knowing what to bu

@jb_bakst: Why have email agents taken so long? Once a month, someone tweets "who's building Cursor or Claude Code for email?" and it goes viral. It's almost a meme at this point. Everyone wants an email agent. But it hasn’t arrived yet. Which feels strange, considering that coding agents went from novelty to industry-transforming over the past eighteen months. And ChatGPT can draft a passable reply to whatever you throw at it. The pieces look like they’re there. And yet, your Monday morning inbox in 2026 looks exactly like it did in 2019 (and 2010, for that matter). Same triage, same context

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