Debate: AI booking agents will push hot restaurant reservations to auctions and lotteries
matt_slotnick · x · 2026-09-07
kolencherry and mattslotnick debate the impact of AI booking agents on high-demand restaurants: kolencherry predicts auctions and lotteries for sought-after dining, arguing agents replicate sneakerbot dynamics across everything with minimal barriers to entry; slotnick pushes back that bots already existed, so what do agents change? Related to the report that the agent Instinct got banned by Resy for hammering its service.
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