Well, they don't need AI to fuck things up. That they could do way before that.

I once looked for an electronic part. I entered the part number, and got a crazy amount of irrelevant options listed, like female hygiene products, vases, clothing, and, somewhere in the list, the chip I was looking for.

Just for fun, I clicked some of those other articles and searched the page for the part number. No matches whatsoever. I don't understand what made that algorithm presenting completely irrelevant stuff when there was one article in the list that matched my search term.

Yeah. Shit like this sorta reminds me of the reports I’ve been hearing about warranty replacements on drives. They don’t send you a replacement because that drive is worth twice what it was so they refund your money you originally paid. It’s almost like it’s turning into eBay and the highest bid.

Same, but it takes effort. Even when items aren't Amazon exclusives, Amazon still contractually requires the seller to give them the best price, so we all still pay the Amazon tax. Also, even if you order direct from the manufacturer's website (for the ones that still have a website instead of just a Facebook page), it's often shipped or fulfilled by Amazon. Or, if you find a decent alternative store like jet.com or woot.com, Amazon just buys them.

Very proud of u

Does the article explain what the "DoorDash problem" is?

fuck amazon. i literally just built an email scraper so i can use this exact email as a way to understand where my disposable amazon spending is going. because of course they don’t offer any way to export your purchases to analyze your spending.

For me its quite funny to discuss Amazon.. I live in a country where Amazon does operate, but its not a main thing at all. I dont think they even have their own delivery vans here, its all done via third parties because it doesnt make sense enough to have their own systems for the 43 people who use it.

Some time ago I was discussing Amazon with an American and said that I have never needed Amazon for anything in my life. Then they asked me "well where do you go when you need dog food, a new drill bit set and bathroom cleaning products" and I just said "to the shopping center 700m away from me?" I dont know if Americans have forgot that malls are a thing, or have malls disappeared from there completely, but based on that guys response, it was like I was talking about going to a different planet. Some people are way too deep into these things... Its pretty concerning, in my opinion.

Yeah I used it to manage my finances. In my banking app it just shows up as:
Amazon $24
Amazon $12
Amazon $16

Before, I checked the emails to label and tag the transactions according to what they actually were: electronics, furniture, etc. Now I have to log in and track down that one hidden page that splits your purchases into actual transactions instead of one infinite scrolling list of items, because Amazon will group the purchases seemingly arbitrarily based on it's own shipping algorithm.

They made the entire UX hostile just to spite A.I. users. Not the first time they've done something similar; I'm getting pretty tired of their shit. In fact, I think I'm going to try some alternatives in my country and see if they're better to use.

Same. Pretty often I want to pull up the specs on some computer part, but these days nothing is clearly labeled with a part number. I don't think my motherboard has one at all, certainly none where I can see. I would just search my email for "motherboard" and the most recent result was probably the one I wanted.

AI won't help for pricing anyway because the company actively tries to get you to buy the less quality more expensive products, as outlined in a John Oliver episode.

Let alone the predictive pricing. "Oh you usually run out of shampoo mid month? Well guess what, shampoo prices double on the 10th and just happen to drop back down on the 25th. "

Google has had a feature variant of this since at least 2014. Back when Google Now was a thing (before LLM's took off) there was a significant outcry about privacy because Google was scraping your emails to tell you when your packages shipped and when they would be delivered, to remind you when your flight was and what time you needed to leave for the airport and if your gate changed etc.

The thing that bothers me about this is, at that point it could be a opt in thing (on the email providers side), and it shouldn't be up to Amazon to use "customer protection" as a reason to enshittify their services so that they can continue to be anti-competitive.

*Gives A.I. agent access to credit card*

I need a tungsten cube

Thats what I was thinking, since now they all compete against each other we can expect everything to get shittier as more walled gardens go up.

Which is stupid because it's the equivalent of saying "you can't send someone to Walmart to buy an item for you. That should be illegal!"

Nah. Trying to keep our order histories away from competitors and analysis.

I've started getting these. Its a little odd. The latest one I received told me it shipped "2 camera and 1 kitchen item". The camera items were a baby monitor and a mount for the baby camera and the kitchen item were coffee filters. So I guess it's accurate but kind of a useless description.