Shopper notes assistants now pause 5 seconds like LLMs before answering
dioscuri · x · 2026-10-25
A shopper observes that store assistants now pause 5–6 seconds in panicked confusion before answering basic questions like 'which aisle are the rugs in?' — wondering if it's a (British?) Gen-Z thing, as if humans have caught LLM latency.
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