> eSelf’s early pitch is that its agents’ current query/interaction response time is under 1.7 seconds — which it claims is faster, and thus more lifelike, than voice responses from other leading companies like OpenAI

I'm curious how this is measured; my experience with the OAI Realtime API is much faster than 1.7s. Time to first token feels like 200ms.

The grift that keeps on grifting.

The ad buys on network tv are proof enough.

They are embarrassing, and often offensive: are you lazy? Terrible at your job? Hate your family? Use our AI assistant to replace your humanity!

If they had a real product with a real use case then they would be selling that instead of this weird stuff.

I know this bubble will retort: but muh productivity!

But please keep in mind that programmers are a minority of a minority and these companies are uninterested in merely giving you specifically a better coding assistant than web search and forums.