Dreamer: the Personal Agent OS — David Singleton

Summary

Obviously, it's really cool to have software that will work on your behalf, but it's only useful if you can trust it, right? So, privacy and security is very important to us. And so, as we started to think about this problem, we realized that we actually had to build something that's a bit like an operating system. You know, the sidekick's like the kernel, the agents and apps are like users. Different rings. Exactly. Because if you try to pick off just one piece of this, y…

Show notes

Mar 23 update for Latent Spacenauts: this episode was recorded before the Dreamer team announced they were joining Meta Superintelligence Labs, and it turned out to be the last interview they did before the news became public. Consider this a snapshot from just before the transition!In 2024, David Singleton left Stripe and joined forces with Hugo Barra for a buzzy stealth startup named /dev/agents. This month they emerged out as Dreamer, a consumer-first platform to discover, build, and use AI a

Themes

• ai
• Obviously, it's really cool to have software that will work on your behalf, but it's only useful if you can trust it, right
• So, privacy and security is very important to us
• You know, the sidekick's like the kernel, the agents and apps are like users