AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please

Re:AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please by datadrivenangel on Monday March 31, 2025 @02:12PM (#43537952)

A web page is an Application/Human Interface. Outside of security concerns, companies can make more money if they control the Application/Human Interface, and reduce the risk of a middleman / broker extorting them for margins.

If I run a flight aggregator that has a majority of flight bookings, I can start charging 'rents' by allowing featured/sponsored listings to be promoted above the 'best' result, leading to a prisoner's dilemma where airlines should pay up to their margins to keep market share.

If an AI company becomes the default application human interface, they can do the same thing. Pay OpenAI tribute or be ended as a going concern.

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Re:AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please by dartos on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @12:38AM (#43542902)

LLMs as a natural language interface is fine.

What I’m saying is that if there was a standard protocol for making travel plans over the internet, we wouldn’t need an AI agent to book a trip.

We could just create great user experiences that expose those APIs like we do for pretty much everything on the web.

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