[jaimebuelta]

On one end, I can see that AI assistants can be useful to solve questions like “Get me a flashlight, enough alkaline batteries for one year of usage, and a waterproof cover that matches. All should fit the toolbox that I bought last month”.

But, at the same time, automating purchases to a GenAI sounds risky, and with “purchase the same thing every month” you have most of it covered. And I remember both the ideas of purchase through Alexa or “push button to order again” that never lived up to their own hype…

[soulofmischief]

Even with batteries, I deeply investigate the stengths, weaknesses and trustworthiness of each brand. What I would need is for my agent to pour through comments and surface any information of note, then provide one or more recommendations with a clear explanation of why.

Amazon is already experiencing with AI summaries of comments but I currently do not trust the tech, it was hastily rolled out to please shareholders and current LLMs have a tendency to sometimes flip negatives in summaries. Besides, fuck Amazon.

[louthy]

I think South Park nailed this with their take on the future evolution of Alexa:

https://youtu.be/lugeruSbnAE

[hooverd]

Well, with AI agents, there's no incentive to make good faceted search anymore either.