[Thread] Cluely unveils a desktop AI assistant that it says can help users cheat on meetings, sales, lectures, interviews, learning new software, and more
call it “noclue” — market size = the entire workforce X: Yuvraj / @yuvicodes : https://cluely.com/ is a huge security threat I don't know if people trusting it But it literally asks for screen permission and microphone And guess what Even after closing it It still reads the on screen content and i barely trust they ain't keeping these data. I can Sharon / @explorersofai : This cluely thing got me going down a rabbit hole. Cheating on everything is not the problem. It's set to kill all critical thinking and make us stochastic parrots. What does it mean for you? Why should you care? How does it change the AI space? All about it in my July @igorbrigadir : @bashu_thanks *Zizek voice* She puts her Cluely, i put my Cluely we plag them in, and the machines are doing it for us, and we are free to do what we want. We paid our superego full tribute... A true romance! https://x.com/... Ryan Vogel / @ryandavogel : i used cluely to file my taxes, absolutely massive [image] Sasha Gusev / @sashagusevposts : Someone's gotta get the movie rights ASAP. An edgy startup promising to Cheat On Everything, only to ship yet another AI notetaker is already a great premise. But imagine people actually using this to monotonously recite AI prompts at each other in meetings ... Raphael / @_raphael_lee_ : clueless: a chrome extension that replaces any cluely related tweet with what you actually wanna see [video] Roy / @im_roy_lee : 2/9] cheat on sales. cluely takes me through an entire sales call > walks me through customer discovery > answers technical questions > handles real-time objections > instantly generates follow-up emails. > keeps my gaze focused on the same part of the screen [video] Roy / @im_roy_lee : 6/9] cheat on product design. cluely helps me design with zero experience. It gives me constant feedback without interrupting my workflow at all. [video] Roy / @im_roy_lee : 8/9] cheat on interviewing/recruiting. uno reverse. cluely helps me conduct staff-level React interviews by: > generating questions that test for deeper knowledge > spotting implementation errors live > evaluating every thought the candidate has [video] Roy / @im_roy_lee : AI is already generally intelligent, but we've trapped it inside a chatbot, and robbed it of context. cluely is the AI-native user experience of the future. and we have the best marketing team in the world to distribute it. cheat on everything. https://cluely.com/ Roy / @im_roy_lee : 3/9] cheat on customer support. cluely helps me handle a customer support case live. every customer support rep now has perfect, INSTANT recall of your entire company knowledge base. [video] Roy / @im_roy_lee : 1/9] cheat on meetings. in a team meeting, cluely > takes live notes for me > comes up with questions to ask so I can seem engaged > answers every question > overlays on the meeting so my eyes don't wander [video] Roy / @im_roy_lee : 7/9] cheat on learning ANY new software. cluely helps me edit this exact launch video, and I become an immediate expert at adobe premiere pro. [video] @cluely : This is the end of human thought. Roy / @im_roy_lee : 9/9] cluely is the perfect post-call notetaker. cluely generates shareable, AI-generated summaries of every meeting. you can chat with all your meetings now, too: > what were yesterday's actionables? > who did i talk to today? [video] Roy / @im_roy_lee : 4/9] cheat on lectures. cluely takes live notes of a lecture, suggests questions a student might have, and explains concepts in real-time (THIS WORKS IN-PERSON). [video] Roy / @im_roy_lee : every consumer ai company is building jarvis. when one person gets there, so will everyone else. the right to distribute won't belong to those with the best tech. it will belong to those who can command attention. @cluely launches at 3pm PST today. Roy / @im_roy_lee : 5/9] cheat on user interviews. cluely helps me > generate questions to probe deep into a customer story > arrive at specific pain points > takes notes of everything live so i never lose track of what was said [video]
Context & Ripple Effects
Cluely had already turned an interview-cheating tool into a broader “cheat on everything” proposition after its founder’s seed-funded launch around interview assistance. This desktop release makes that positioning concrete across meetings, sales, support, and learning rather than a single hiring use case.
The timing also fits an investor case for competing through rapid product and marketing iteration, articulated in a16z’s defense of Cluely’s speed-first approach. But an earlier hands-on report found the product slow and insufficiently context-aware, so the expanded scope raises the execution bar as well as the visibility.
First-order effects
- Cluely users can place live notes, suggested questions, answers, and workflow guidance directly over meetings, calls, lectures, and software learning—bringing AI assistance into moments traditionally judged as unaided performance.
- The reported screen and microphone permissions, plus users’ allegations that screen reading persists after closure, make trust, data handling, and endpoint security immediate concerns for prospective users and their employers or schools.
Second-order effects
- Employers, recruiters, educators, and sales organizations may have to treat polished real-time responses as less reliable evidence of an individual’s knowledge, shifting more assessment toward verification and task design.
- Competing workplace-AI tools face pressure to offer similarly embedded, real-time assistance while differentiating on consent controls, visibility, and data governance; Cluely’s own prior usability limitations remain a practical opening for them.
Third-order effects
- If always-on desktop copilots spread, the boundary between individual capability and software-mediated performance will weaken across hiring, training, and knowledge work, prompting new norms for disclosure and permitted assistance.
- The core contest may move from standalone chatbots to workflow-native overlays that can observe context and act in the moment—an architecture that makes privacy safeguards and organizational controls central product features.
The trend: This is one instance of AI moving from optional drafting tools to persistent, context-aware assistants embedded in the work surface where performance is evaluated.