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salomonk_mur | 5 months ago

You don't want automatic browsing of tedious tasks? I really do.

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cons0le|5 months ago

Not if it's not local. I don't want my browser to be an automated snitch for palantir

mort96|5 months ago

Automating tedious tasks is great, as long as it's reliable. We know how to build reliable integrations and reliable automations. Making chat bots a page and click buttons it thinks will do the right thing is never gonna be reliable.

robofanatic|5 months ago

I certainly don’t want AI to buy groceries for me while I’m “busy” doing something else.

adrianmonk|5 months ago

I wouldn't mind help with grocery orders. I like to check which apples are on special and maybe buy a different variety from normal depending on the price.

My grocery store makes this really tedious because they don't have a feature to sort by price per pound. So I have a stupid ritual where I ctrl-F "($0." and repeatedly ctrl-G to see all the apples under $1/pound. Then I do it again with ctrl-F "($1." to see the ones in the $1-$2/pound price range. And there are several other products with similar annoying processes.

If an AI could just do that for me, it would save me time. I don't actually think present-day AI would do it reliably enough, but the concept sounds fine.

smileysteve|5 months ago

It's like using Alexa to shop, or when an Amazon ad comes on it and saves to the cart, only your order has a delivery cost and it's perishable

brazukadev|5 months ago

like what, reading & commenting on HN?