I outsourced my life to AI agents for two weeks. It went…weirdly.

If there’s one thing a busy person doesn’t need, it’s more information.

More emails, more notifications, more infinite feeds — the steady drip of data spells doom for the overstimulated American.

And if you’re a busy parent, like me, sometimes it feels like a flood: school emails, doctor’s appointments, so many little things to buy.

Even things that used to be simple are harder.

I recently listed an item on Facebook Marketplace, which quickly meant I was replying to offers and getting ghosted for the better part of a weekend before finding someone who, after a detailed back-and-forth about the most likely place to find a parking spot in my neighborhood, finally took my old baby swing away.

If only I’d had Muse.

You’ve probably seen the ads on Instagram promising “AI that gets it done for you.” The new personal AI agent app from Meta can not only automate your Facebook Marketplace tasks, but also sort your emails, manage your calendar, and buy your groceries.

And it’s free — unless you’re using it most of the day or you want access to Meta’s most powerful models , at which point it costs $20 or $100 a month.

It all sounds, in a word, magical.

Muse is probably the personal AI agent you’ve heard of — and it’s currently the market leader with more than 8 million downloads in its first month, according to one estimate — but there’s now a small army of these bots: OpenAI recently announced Dots , X has Grok Bot , and there’s Instinct , which is currently invite-only and operates entirely in iMessage or WhatsApp.

They all offer the same promise: to remove friction from your busy life.

For the last two weeks, I’ve been handing over more and more of my life to AI agents in pursuit of making my life a little simpler.

What I found is that AI is unpredictable, and so are AI agents.

When I first began using Muse, it started doing things I didn’t ask it to do.