The internet sucks. Yesterday, I had my agent search for openings for The Odyssey that fit my requirements and then book them. It was way better than manually looking at seat maps for 20 different showtimes and going through 10 steps just to buy the tickets.
This is functionality currently built into Google search. I google "The Odyssey Showtimes" and it shows me when it's playing at all local theaters.
Then I can just pick which time works for me. I have never in my life had a theater be sold out when it's not an opening night or weekend for extremely big films.
Is this something you actually tried to approach before LLMs?
Poor UX. The internet used to be designed around ease of use. Now it's dark patterns, advertising, nag windows, and "engagement." Retailers don't offer a way to aggregate info easily, so it means wading through piles of shit to find relevant information. Bots can eliminate all the shitty parts about using the internet. That's a big time saver, but it's also a big headache saver.
Because doing it manually sucks? Every website shoves a different bunch of dark patterns in your face, everything is buggy, nobody ever thinks about UX.
The monopoly movie chain in my country "updated" their pages to be "better".
Now it's so bad that some chad created their own overlay for the site where you can actually see all the showtimes for a specific movie on a single page instead of having to click through 42 different showings one by one.
Yeah I'm a bit baffled too... the world is so, so much worse now because of AI.
More scams/spam, lower quality software everywhere, development is no longer fun, many interactions with coworkers are just "have my people talk to your people" behind the scenes, except it's "have my LLM read the huge document your LLM generated". Every business is trying to cut corners by using AI, so customer service sucks, products suck, prices are optimized to be the absolute maximum people will pay regardless of the actual value being provided (including food)...
