About what AI's killer app will be, the way email was for the internet.
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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About what AI's killer app will be, the way email was for the internet.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
What is the AI version of that?
Being able to plan a trip from a single sentence would be one killer app for many people:
"I'm free next week. I'd like to go to A, B, or C for a couple days. What's a cheap flight and a room within this budget near X area?"
and if it could go and also make a booking through your accounts that would be amazing.
But right now even Google's Gemini is an utter useless dumbass if asked to search Google Flights or Airbnb.
I mean if LLMs could just be a natural-language wrapper around existing tools, that'd be amazing in itself. But corporivalry has made that an stillborn dream.