Are ai second brains and assistants useless now?

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So I was planning to build an ai assistant powered by qwen and my obsidian notes, but since ChatGPT’s astra ai , is there any point in making it anymore?

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2026-09-05 00:26 · r/artificial
Are ai second brains and assistants useless now?

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