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I let an AI book my whole Portland trip and it put me on a 5am flight to save $12
I handed an AI travel agent my dates, budget, and one rule: keep it cheap and simple. It built me a plan with a 5am departure out of PDX for $12 less and a 90 minute layover in Denver, then acted like it had won something. When I asked for a 10am flight instead, it told me that would cost $38 more and implied I was bad with money. Turns out it optimizes for the number, not for whether a human can function that day. So what else is it quietly trading for pennies that I'd never agree to if someone just asked me?
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vera_murphy1mo ago
Did you ever stop and think about how many "small" things these systems decide for us without asking? I used to figure cheap was cheap and I should just suck it up, but reading this made me realize I'd never let a friend book that flight for me. Saving $12 to lose a whole day of being useless is not a win, that's just a robot counting pennies instead of people.
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