Bliki: Agentic Email

I've heard a number of reports recently about people setting up LLM agents to work on their email and other communications. The LLM has access to the user's email account, reads all the emails, decides which emails to ignore, drafts some emails for the user to approve, and replies to some emails autonomously. It can also hook into a calendar, confirming, arranging, or denying meetings. This is a very appealing prospect. Like most folks I know, the barrage of emails is a vexing toad squatting on my life, constantly diverting me from interesting work. More communication tools - slack, discord, chat servers - only make this worse. There's lots of scope for an intelligent, agentic, assistant to make much of this toil go away. But there's something deeply scary about doing this right now. Email is the nerve center of my life. There's tons of information in there, much of it sensitive. While I'm aware much of this passes through the internet pipes in plain text (hello NSA - how are you doing