Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders

Re:Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash or... by ryandrake on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @04:13PM (#50371606)

That AI is clearly a product imagined by wealthy tech executives who have personal assistants who shop for them, who trust those personal assistants to buy what they expect for them. The use case doesn't resonate for us normal people, because we do our own shopping, are price sensitive, and typically don't just buy things without doing basic research about what they cost.

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Re:Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash or... by delecti on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:34PM (#50373930)

I'd never made that connection before. This whole category of tech company offerings makes so much more sense now.

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Re:Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash or... by pesus on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:37PM (#50374838)

Might be a bit reductive, but I think you can probably explain >90% of modern business decisions this way. Being completely out of touch with how a normal person lives seems to have serious impact on just about everything they do.

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Re:Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash or... by ryandrake on Thursday November 05, 2026 @12:39AM (#50375604)

These people have very different problems than normal people, and they solve them in very different ways. And most of them were born rich, and have always been rich, so they can't even imagine what a normal person's life and needs are. If your target market is also rich executives, then by all means, have your rich executives dream up product features. But now, most of tech are producing solutions for rich tech executives, but hoping that normal people buy them, and they are wondering why normal people don't care.

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