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>Users could more easily get the exact flights they want Can we stop pretending this is an issue anyone has ever had.
by whywhywhywhy 7mo ago
>Users could more easily get the exact flights they want
Can we stop pretending this is an issue anyone has ever had.
- qwertox 7mo agoI want my local dm shop to offer me their product info as copyable markdown, ingredient list, and other health related information. This could be a way to automate it.
- Lord_Zero 7mo agodm?
- arcanemachiner 7mo agoSince you didn't say what a "dm shop" is, I'll assume you mean "dungeon master shop" where you buy Dungeons and Dragons-y stuff. Or maybe it's a "direct marketing shop", where you bring flyers to be delivered into people's mail? Yeah, that must be it.
- Sophira 7mo agoGiven that it's about food or medicine somehow, because of the mention of ingredients lists and health-related information, it's probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dm-drogerie_markt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dm-drogerie_markt (usually abbreviated "dm"). (I didn't know about that either before now.)
- larrymcp 7mo agoHe probably means the large German drug store chain called DM. https://www.dm.de/ https://www.dm.de/
- echoangle 7mo agoWhy would you want that over a proper API with structured data?
- adithyassekhar 7mo agoWelcome to a new generation of developers (not by age) who wants unstructured word slop markdown instead of clear jsons. People's brain are turned to a mush because they no longer think in a logical way, that's the LLM's job.
- arcanemachiner 7mo ago@grok Is this true?
- qwertox 7mo ago"unstructured word slop markdown" Where's the issue? In this case there's no difference between a structured markdown and a structured JSON document for an LLM. What's wrong with a nutrient table in markdown?
- echoangle 7mo agoIf Markdown can be used for LLMs and JSON can be used for LLMs and other purposes too, JSON is better, right?
- qwertox 7mo agoHow does my chatbot use the API if not through MCP?
- thayne 7mo agoWell I have had the problem of "I want to find the cheapest flight that leaves during this range of dates, and returns during this range of dates, but isn't early in the morning or late at night, and includes additional fees for the luggage I need in the price comparison" and current search tools can't do that very well. I'm not very optimistic WebMCP would solve that though.
- trollbridge 7mo agomatrix.ita does this very well, and has been doing so for nearly 3 decades.
- ekjhgkejhgk 7mo agoDo you mean this website? https://matrix.itasoftware.com https://matrix.itasoftware.com I dind't know about it, just checked it out for a flight I'll buy soon, and has almost no direct flights which I know exist because they're on skyscanner...
- trollbridge 7mo agoIn particular, you can come up with fairly complex search expressions in the "routing". In the early days the site was implemented using Lisp.
- ekjhgkejhgk 7mo agoFairly complex? I'm telling you it's missing direct flights.
- kgwxd 7mo agoThat's what everyone wants, and if everyone can easily find it, it'll be worse than getting tickets for Taylor Swift.
- fdgg 7mo agoHaha. Im still waiting for someone to show me something that makes me go "Wow!". Show me, dont tell me!
- notnullorvoid 7mo agoI'm more bothered by pretending WebMCP will actually help. More than likely we'll end up seeing dark patterns emerge like sites steering the AI to book more expensive flights and hotels from ad placement.
- otterley 7mo agoAlso, vendors in a highly competitive market tend not to want to commoditize themselves by making it too easy for buyers to compare their offerings directly.