jfghi

I know people who have paid list prices for drugs because their insurance wouldn’t cover them.

I think with the amount of corporations and existing homeowners buying homes that the demand is strong enough to keep prices high no matter what happens. There are billions of dollars set aside to gobble up homes in the event of a price drop. In my area, 20 percent of homes are owned by investors and realtors delist homes that don’t sell as opposed to drop price.

So far the agentic stuff seems focused on shopping. Online shopping is remarkably seamless and optimized for me so the potential productivity gain is not enticing.

I’ve encountered a number of errors dealing with LLMs so would be wary of the results.

I also think there’d be an incentive to enshittify by having vendors pay to get preferential prioritization from the LLM. This could result in worse products being delivered for higher prices.

Technologically and mathematically this is all quite interesting. However, I have no desire to ever use an agent and I doubt there are many that will.

In my experience the people who can afford everything are often the ones looking to pay the least at all times.

Also doesn’t track user and send a bunch of telemetry

For safety

By defaulting to high until low is demonstrated?

They could examine random bicycles plus those that did extraordinarily well and issue lifetime bans for offending parties.

…for just the cap ex part

Who wrote this?