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by echoangle5 hours ago |
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upvoteby degamad4 hours ago|
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Because some people do.

Corporate travel is an example. In many organisations, you tell someone in the travel department "I need to be in Tokyo for this conference from Tuesday to Sunday, and charge it to this cost code", and they figure out flights, accommodation, etc for you, with minimal input from you.

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upvoteby cautiouscat3 hours ago|
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If an agent planned a flight for me with an overnight layover, I'm unplugging it. I don't care whose dime it is lol.
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upvoteby SV_BubbleTime1 hours ago|
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“Find me a cheap ticket from Seattle to LA”

… 23 hours in Denver later…

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upvoteby trentearl1 hours ago|
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Claude code planned my recent trip to China. I'm a very experienced traveller but don't enjoy planning. It was a great trip.
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upvoteby bronco210161 hours ago|
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I think it depends on what you do for work. I'm not going to ask an agent to book my flight for my vacation to French Polynesia. I want to pick my seat and potentially find a deal making an upgrade worth it, choose an airline, etc.

But my routine business trips in the CONUS with strictly defined booking options... let me just email an agent "Get there by meeting on day A, leave after meeting day B" and have it sort it all out without the drudgery of the corporate travel portal. YES PLEASE!

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upvoteby ezst46 minutes ago|
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By that point, you don't need an AI that boils the oceans and hopefully doesn't confabulate or misinterpret your words, all you need is a better corporate travel portal, which is a legitimate workplace productivity discussion to have, and a solved problem with traditional methods. Ours is effectively close to the workflow you describe: picking dates and time brackets, destination, fine tuning flights and hotel options, sending for validation, less than 10 clicks through information-dense and effective/predictable screens which I wouldn't want to trade for a chatbot and it's usually over the top words salad.
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upvoteby ishtanbul49 minutes ago|
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A good agent would call you to ask clarifying questions and then actually get you that perfect seat, etc. ideally
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upvoteby lonrenor2 hours ago|
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For me, it is not a matter of trust but that I actually like shopping, planning a trip, deciding what restaurant to go to. Deciding what to buy when shopping is a matter of personal taste and not intelligence.

A human assistant is largely a status symbol. Most people are not really that busy. The real problem with an agentic assistant is if everyone can have one then it no longer acts as a status symbol.

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upvoteby satvikpendem3 hours ago|
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Plan, sure, many people ask this of AI already, but not actually ask it to buy autonomously.
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upvoteby fwip3 hours ago|
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The rich fucks who run the show do.
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