Current phones and computers are fundamentally the wrong interface for AI—HARK is designing a radical new AI-native device to replace them, not an incremental improvement like AI glasses.
Adcock argues that MacBooks and iPhones were designed 20 years ago and are 'complete rubbish for AI,' and that HARK is designing entirely new AI-native devices that will replace phones and computers, dismissing smart glasses like Meta's as poorly designed peripheral products. ✦ AI generated
Brett Adcock · My First Million · 2026-08-14 · original ↗
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“What do you think those devices look like? Are these watches, glasses, something else altogether?”
you need to have um you need to fix the the interface to AI. You have like um AI over here and a human and you have like an old hardware system in between like a call like a MacBook or iPhone. They were designed 20 years ago. They're complete rubbish for AI. They're not the right interface. So, we went out and we are out there designing what we think comes like after the iPhone for AI. And it's like an upgrade cycle... They're going to be all AI computers and phones and systems and they're going to be great. They're going to be all real time. You can always access them... You'll be able to abstract away most apps. You'll probably not have an app store. or you probably have an AI operating system... In fact, like the metaglasses are probably one of the worst products I've ever bought. They're just horrible. They're horrible. Like I I can't even like figure out how to use it. It doesn't have its own network. It piggybacks on the iPhone network. It means your app needs to be open on your phone. The pairing's long. Like it doesn't work well. Like I can't think of any reason why I would need this thing strapped to my head for 14 hours a day. Like it's just like the wrong device.
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9:19get there, we need to work on the like model side. It's got to be just better than text chat. It's got to be able to use computers, have like basically near perfect memory, be able to talk to you like just like a human would back and forth. And uh we have to have vision in the system. You have to be like look at the world and understand what you're
9:35seeing with it. And I think secondly, you need to have um you need to fix the the interface to AI. You have like um AI over here and a human and you have like an old hardware system in between like a call like a MacBook or iPhone. They were designed 20 years ago. They're complete rubbish for AI. They're not the right interface. So, we went out and
9:56we are out there designing what we think comes like after the iPhone for AI. And it's like an upgrade cycle. We see this all the time in startups. You guys see it, right? Like we're we're in an upgrade cycle with the computers and phones. They're just going to go away. They're going to be a new ones. They're going to be all AI computers and phones and systems and they're going to be
10:12great. They're going to be all real time. You can always access them and you want they'll always be like understanding what's happening. They'll always be able to reference things what's going on. You'll be able to abstract away most apps. You'll probably not have an app store. or you probably have an AI operating system. Uh it'll be perfect for you. You'll ultimately have your own weights on your own devices
10:28that you'll own and have with you everywhere you go. It'll be like a really great uh pairing. And we hired an incredible team. Teams like you know maybe like 80 or 90 now. Uh the guy that leads uh hardware design ABS previously designed for last several generations of iPhone, MacBook, MacBook Pro. Like he's just like the he's a stud. He's great. So, we're designing what we think are
10:50the next generation of AI devices that will kill the phone and computer. And then, uh, we're designing the next generation of AI models. The models need to get a lot more multi multimodal. They need to get a lot more expressive. Like the text encoding is just not enough for us to like really have a like a like a real AGI feeling with AI. So, we're working on that. We have our first AI
11:07pre we did our first research preview or computer using agent that we came out last last week. I think we were like top on some of like the leading like, you know, browser computer use benchmarks in the world. And uh it'll keep getting better. This will keep getting better and better. Like every month we'll just like it'll be better and smarter using a computer and faster. We're working on a
11:23couple other different types of technologies internally on the AI side. And then we'll launch the ability to use HARK on like traditional browser and iPhone and Android in about a month. So um you'll be able to start using it and then we'll have hardware coming. Um we're working on now. We actually have a hardware in the lab now we're using testing and it's it's crazy [ __ ] Like