Comment by _rutinerad
3 hours ago
I almost always use Claude when shopping online, to find unknown unknowns. And I loved using Claude to plan a recent trip, instead of not bothering to plan at all because it’s so tedious. Just as a counterexample.
3 hours ago
I almost always use Claude when shopping online, to find unknown unknowns. And I loved using Claude to plan a recent trip, instead of not bothering to plan at all because it’s so tedious. Just as a counterexample.
I suppose I meant more of “their” AI (Rufus?).
With your personal agent, you can use it for everything YOU want to do and I can use mine for everything I want to do.
But we both log onto Amazon and are greeted by Rufus, a stranger that I’m sure most people have no interest in using.
And maybe shopping is a bad example, but AI is getting jammed into EVERYTHING and I’m sure that’s not the end result.
Since GP compared this to the dot com era, I’ll just say this all tracks
You are using Claude like people use search engines. Back then there were tons of people who said they don’t need the internet or google to buy things just like they say the same things with AI
But people don’t control the market. Once Amazon bullied their way to 50% of all retail sales people no longer had a choice. It’s all coming from the same warehouses so you might as well get the lowest price
If it’s cost effective to have an LLM operated business, that business will outcompete the ones you like until they either fold or end up looking like everybody else.