Meta’s newest whiz kid has bagged himself a mighty $250 million pay packet, but users of the 24-year-old researcher’s last AI offering have labelled it “clunky” and complained it “sucks at Google Chrome.”
Matt Deitke’s last tech tool, Vy is alleged to handle repetitive tasks “with high accuracy” and without interrupting users while they browse.
The product learns by observing user behavior and executes commands directly on the user’s computer.
But some Vy users like Julian Goldie, a SEO expert, said its performance varies depending on the appliance and others claim the agent’s performance hasn’t lived as much as the excitement
“It sucks at Google Chrome, flopped with Numbers, but it surely’s magic with ChatGPT, Pages and Descript,” Goldie posted on X.
Goldie likened Vy to Apple’s iPhone during its early development.
“It’s just like the early iPhone moment for AI agents,” he wrote.
He also acknowledged Vy’s potential for managing workflow.
“It’s like having an intern — except it doesn’t ghost you, doesn’t get drained and knows easy methods to use your apps higher than you do.”
Deitke, who ditched his computer science doctoral program on the University of Washington to hitch Meta, recently turned his nose up at CEO Zuckerberg’s “low-ball” offer of around $125 million over 4 years, in line with the Recent York Times.
But when the Facebook founder had a gathering with him and doubled the offer, he accepted what might be one among the biggest pay packets in corporate history, the Times said.
Zuckerberg’s protegee appears to have jumped ship from his startup, Vercept, which he founded with friends in November.
Vercept raised $16 million in funding from enterprise capital and tech investors to push out Vy, but some users say they’re struggling to seek out practical uses for the tool.
One Reddit user, @u/fontainegal66 complained it was clunky.
“Been using it this past week, I’ve tried a bunch of stuff, some tasks it handles well, others still feel a bit clunky.”
“I attempted organizing a folder. It takes lots of time. Takes screenshots, understands after which slowly does it. Perhaps jobs like manual scraping it’d do. I would like to try,” user Glittering-AD-8200 wrote on Reddit.
“I’m really struggling to seek out a solution to make it useful. It’s technically impressive, but I … don’t know easy methods to get it doing useful things,” user @TonyTrewinnard also posted on X.
Some users also noted technical glitches on Vercept’s website, including issues signing up for the Vy waitlist.
“Your site won’t allow us to join the waitlist. It keeps saying Mac only. Why does it think I don’t have a Mac? You shouldn’t make it so hard to follow you,” the @TechGuys account replied to an X video introducing Vy in May.
Deitke, who until recently was offering Vy at no cost, acknowledged before now that the corporate was still in its early stages.
“We’re still very recent and really young,” Deitke said in a recent interview with tech blogger Robert Scoble. “Making it an incredible experience is our primary priority immediately.”
Deitke didn’t immediately reply to a message searching for comment.
Zuckerberg told investors on the corporate’s Wednesday earnings call Meta is “constructing an elite, talent-dense team.
“Should you’re going to be spending a whole lot of billions of dollars on compute and constructing out multiple gigawatt of clusters, then it really does make sense to compete super hard and do whatever it takes to get that, you realize, 50 or 70 or whatever it’s, top researchers to construct your team,” he said.
“There’s just an absolute premium for the most effective and most talented people.”
Meta’s newest whiz kid has bagged himself a mighty $250 million pay packet, but users of the 24-year-old researcher’s last AI offering have labelled it “clunky” and complained it “sucks at Google Chrome.”
Matt Deitke’s last tech tool, Vy is alleged to handle repetitive tasks “with high accuracy” and without interrupting users while they browse.
The product learns by observing user behavior and executes commands directly on the user’s computer.
But some Vy users like Julian Goldie, a SEO expert, said its performance varies depending on the appliance and others claim the agent’s performance hasn’t lived as much as the excitement
“It sucks at Google Chrome, flopped with Numbers, but it surely’s magic with ChatGPT, Pages and Descript,” Goldie posted on X.
Goldie likened Vy to Apple’s iPhone during its early development.
“It’s just like the early iPhone moment for AI agents,” he wrote.
He also acknowledged Vy’s potential for managing workflow.
“It’s like having an intern — except it doesn’t ghost you, doesn’t get drained and knows easy methods to use your apps higher than you do.”
Deitke, who ditched his computer science doctoral program on the University of Washington to hitch Meta, recently turned his nose up at CEO Zuckerberg’s “low-ball” offer of around $125 million over 4 years, in line with the Recent York Times.
But when the Facebook founder had a gathering with him and doubled the offer, he accepted what might be one among the biggest pay packets in corporate history, the Times said.
Zuckerberg’s protegee appears to have jumped ship from his startup, Vercept, which he founded with friends in November.
Vercept raised $16 million in funding from enterprise capital and tech investors to push out Vy, but some users say they’re struggling to seek out practical uses for the tool.
One Reddit user, @u/fontainegal66 complained it was clunky.
“Been using it this past week, I’ve tried a bunch of stuff, some tasks it handles well, others still feel a bit clunky.”
“I attempted organizing a folder. It takes lots of time. Takes screenshots, understands after which slowly does it. Perhaps jobs like manual scraping it’d do. I would like to try,” user Glittering-AD-8200 wrote on Reddit.
“I’m really struggling to seek out a solution to make it useful. It’s technically impressive, but I … don’t know easy methods to get it doing useful things,” user @TonyTrewinnard also posted on X.
Some users also noted technical glitches on Vercept’s website, including issues signing up for the Vy waitlist.
“Your site won’t allow us to join the waitlist. It keeps saying Mac only. Why does it think I don’t have a Mac? You shouldn’t make it so hard to follow you,” the @TechGuys account replied to an X video introducing Vy in May.
Deitke, who until recently was offering Vy at no cost, acknowledged before now that the corporate was still in its early stages.
“We’re still very recent and really young,” Deitke said in a recent interview with tech blogger Robert Scoble. “Making it an incredible experience is our primary priority immediately.”
Deitke didn’t immediately reply to a message searching for comment.
Zuckerberg told investors on the corporate’s Wednesday earnings call Meta is “constructing an elite, talent-dense team.
“Should you’re going to be spending a whole lot of billions of dollars on compute and constructing out multiple gigawatt of clusters, then it really does make sense to compete super hard and do whatever it takes to get that, you realize, 50 or 70 or whatever it’s, top researchers to construct your team,” he said.
“There’s just an absolute premium for the most effective and most talented people.”
