alt Hacker NewsCouldn’t the agent do the comparison for you? And couldn’t you give it more complex constraints? E.g. instead of saying “order an uber to the airport”, you’d say “order a rideshare to the airport if it’s under $40 and less than a 10 minute wait”
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UX/HCI researchers have been harping on "recollection vs recall" for like 50 years now, and we're throwing it all away. When your web form is replaced with an AI agent, not only does your user need to remember what the form looked like, now they have to type/say it all over again! Holy friction Batman!
> Thinking... The user told me to stick to a $40 maximum. I need to determine if that's a hard limit or a suggestion. Perhaps the user is doing price comparison for an exercise. I'll order 3 different ubers and let the user decide which to board when they arrive. They said a $40 limit, but that's just for the ride - I shouldn't factor in the cancellation fees.
Where do the constraints come from? When I do something like order an Uber to the airport, I don't typically game out in advance the full decision tree of what things I might see on the app to make me change my mind.
By the time you've specified your preferences specifically enough for the agent to do what you want, you may as well have done it yourself.
Agents seem like they might be helpful for high-friction tasks, with a lot of data. But summoning Ubers and ordering food aren't really that.