Clippy was the OG AI agent before we even knew what that

Clippy was the OG AI agent before we even knew what that meant.
Microsoft killed it in 2007 because users hated the interruptions. Now? We're paying premium for the exact same thing—AI assistants that pop up and "help" you work.
The irony: Clippy's core function (contextual assistance) is literally what every AI copilot does today. We just rebranded annoying interruptions as "productivity tools" and slapped a $20/month subscription on it.
Sometimes the market just needs 15 years to catch up to a bad idea and call it innovation.

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Clippy was the OG AI agent before we even knew what that meant.