https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/

So funny to see the young people reuse the term “personal digital assistant”. Will the acronym PDA return? Will historians be confused? Running this tech is very risky.

“The amount of value people are unlocking right now by throwing caution to the wind is hard to ignore, though. Here’s Clawdbot buying AJ Stuyvenberg a car by negotiating with multiple dealers over email…

… People are buying dedicated Mac Minis just to run OpenClaw, under the rationale that at least it can’t destroy their main computer if something goes wrong. They’re still hooking it up to their private emails and data though, so the lethal trifecta is very much in play.”

Early PCs had no antiviral protections at all. They ran that way for a goodly amount of time.

PS. PDAs unable to do things because of their deep (subconscious) model restrictions is fun to compare to human conditioning.