Don't Use Agents to Book Flights: Aim for Tasks That Save Months, Not Minutes
jesselyu · x · 2026-10-02
jesselyu offers a simple heuristic for using AI agents: skip the small stuff like booking restaurants, hotels, and flights — those only save minutes. Instead, point agents at bigger goals that save you hours, weeks, months, or years. The metric is magnitude of time saved, not whether a task can be automated.
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