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Even if there were no ads, having a robot book your trips would still be nicer as it is still work to do. We used to have travel agents do all the booking inste
by MattGaiser 2y ago
Even if there were no ads, having a robot book your trips would still be nicer as it is still work to do. We used to have travel agents do all the booking instead and merely got rid of them for cost reasons.
- walterbell 2y agoRobots could guide robot fans towards common physical experiences.
- gtirloni 2y agoWhy trust a robot that may or may not get your request right if you just go to the source and book it yourself? The experience booking anything with a travel agent was always horrible with so much back and forth, do we really want that?
- MattGaiser 2y agoThe work isn’t in the booking. It’s deciding where to look and comparing prices and amenities. Paying for and checking out is 5% of the customer journey here.
- lolinder 2y agoEh, I disagree. The actual booking process itself is both pretty painless and very much not something I trust to be automated. Enter my card (better yet, pick a saved one), confirm the dates and price, click confirm. I can't think of anything in there that needs to be automated more than it is. And choosing something to do should be both fun and something you'd want to do yourself—it only isn't fun because businesses aren't incentivized to make it fun, they're incentivized to try to redirect your attention away from what you actually want and instead draw you to their various sponsors.
- grajaganDev 2y agoI am a control freak when it comes to travel arrangements and would also never trust it to automation.
- swatcoder 2y agoOh, the stories that could be told about travel agents and the trips they booked! Delegation sounds great and sometimes is, but be careful what you wish for, especially when the your delegate is actually working for somebody else, as will be the case for most LLM agents and was the case for most travel agents.