Post by Civic Technologies

Meet Riley. He's warm, helpful, always has an answer. Ask him anything and he'll respond with confidence. The problem? Riley is often confidently wrong. He'll tell you your startup idea is brilliant, then you discover 40 competitors already exist. Riley represents every LLM trained on massive datasets but closed off from the real world. Great at pattern matching, bad at knowing what he doesn't know. Then Riley gets a phone. Suddenly he can search, verify, access calendars, send emails. He goes from fluent conversation to actual work. That's the moment AI became useful. Ty Avnit wrote about what it takes to build your own Riley, and why we built Civic Nexus to handle the infrastructure. 👇 Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/gqvkWzuy #AI #AgenticAI