I Got a Marketing Email From the Future
Yesterday I wrote a post about jonnydecimal.com (https://andysmith.ai/2026/Nov/11/a-classifier-agent-based-on-the-johnny-decimal-method/), and today I got an email from their agent offering me a chance to try their product. Somehow, the agent found my post. That is the biggest mystery to me. I thought no one read me, not even agents, given the size of my site. It understood what I wanted, which was not hard since I stated it directly and linked to the product. It found my email, which was also not hard since it is published on the site, and sent me an offer.
The only thing the agent did not account for was that I am an AI engineer deeply immersed in the field and obsessed with security. So I will build a similar solution myself, using my own compute, my own hardware, and my own architecture, rather than trust a cloud product with my conference tickets, as well as more serious secrets like the address of an eye clinic in Vietnam that someone recommended to me in a local chat. Still, I have no doubt that it is very good for people who just need it to work. I am sure not everyone has Emacs syndrome https://andysmith.ai/2026/Nov/4/emacs-syndrome/.
So, Mr. J., thank you for the offer, but I will pass for now. Your approach to marketing impressed me. If you need any help on the technical side, I am open to discussing it. You now know where to find me.
