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> But imagine for a second they did do that. You get the API, all the info is there. > Why do you need AI then? (from this HN comment, worth a read in full: h

• phoghed 21d ago
  > Let's say you want to plan a trip to Thailand with your family. You could use the fancy AI to do it for you, or you could build a stupid frontend with minimal natural language understanding. It's giving https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863#9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863#9224
  • tempfile 21d ago
    > It's giving Except it isn't. Someone else could build that stupid frontend, and essentially create a better booking.com. Or you could ask the robot to make you a stupid frontend. It remains true that a well-designed MCP server goes wildly against the interests of sites like booking.com.
    • phoghed 20d ago
      Yes, almost every website on earth is enshittified to the point that it’s user hostile. Even something as simple as a recipe blog. That one is already solved by chatbots, and it’s glorious. I never have to look at a shitty recipe site full of ads with the recipe buried beneath a mile of fake stories again. LLM finds some, reads reviews, I pick one, if it’s good import to paprika, and that’s that. There’s at least a chance that enough people demand it, combined with AI hype, that we could end up with a slightly better experience. And if not, then there’s always the brute force approach of something like grok bot