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Let AI do the hard parts of your holiday shopping

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17 points ChrisArchitect | 3 comments | 13 Nov 25 17:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.601s | source
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mrtksn ◴[13 Nov 25 18:26 UTC] No.45918550[source]▶
What is the point of this? Shopping is the primary reason people work, people love shopping. Not only that, people don't know what they what to buy so they learn in by looking at the options for ideas.

Also, the point of buying presents isn't charity or wealth transfer but thinking about the person.

This is a the case of having a solution looking for a problem.

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1. 1123581321 ◴[13 Nov 25 18:39 UTC] No.45918707[source]▶
Depends on use cases, I suppose. I knew someone with a lot of nieces and nephews. She would buy them all whatever Amazon said was the hot toy that year for each kid’s age. She would definitely shop with AI. A little crass, sure, but real shopper behavior.
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2. mrtksn ◴[13 Nov 25 18:41 UTC] No.45918736[source]▶
Interesting but what's the point here? Just give the nephews some money and let them figure out what they want themselves.
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3. 1123581321 ◴[14 Nov 25 05:33 UTC] No.45924169[source]▶
Many people want to give gifts instead of cash, rational or not. The point is, if the use cases exist, it’s not strange for software to address them.