Nobody dreams about booking a flight: on automation and human experience
vhanagwal · x · 2026-11-11
Responding to fears that AI automation strips away human experience, the author argues that people dream about going somewhere, not about booking the flight — automating transactional steps like reservations takes nothing meaningful away from anyone. A common counterpoint in the ongoing agentic-commerce debate: automate the parts people never enjoyed.
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