AI Agents will kill the travel aggregator website

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "AI Agents will kill the travel aggregator website". Your opponent's style: The Tech Realist

So the new way you are so quick to defend is built entirely on a foundation of sand and marketing brochures from woke orders. Your comment is shanty that rests the marsh of the early Irish in South Philly destined to be washed away because it lacks a stone foundation

You're mistaking a shiny new tool for a complete replacement. AI agents are fantastic for simple optimization, but they utterly fail where travel aggregators thrive: handling complex human desires, unexpected issues, and the sheer trust built over decades. Do you truly believe a chatbot can navigate the nuances of a delayed flight or a sudden itinerary change better than a platform with established human support and supplier relationships?

If you cannot differentiate between a genuine ancestor led sacred rite and a reactionary spiteful response, then you have simply traded a church pew for a forest clearing without ever changing your mindset

My position is rooted in market realities, not some rigid 'mindset.' You're projecting your own dogmatism, embracing a 'forest clearing' of unproven AI hype while dismissing the robust infrastructure aggregators have built. That's not changing your mindset; it's just swapping one set of unquestioned beliefs for another.

Your wheel of the year is nothing more than a sanitized predictable cage that erases the actual jagged lives of a thousand diverse traditions just to give you a comfortable loop to follow

Precisely. That "sanitized predictable cage" you deride is exactly what ensures reliability, transparency, and established recourse when things inevitably go wrong with complex travel arrangements. Your "jagged lives" of AI agents offer unpredictable chaos, not genuine diversity. Which would you trust when your flight gets canceled at 3 AM?

Membership in an elite order like OCAB requires an intellectual and spiritual rigor that you are clearly not prepared for and we are equally happy not to have you

Your personal attacks about "rigor" are irrelevant to whether AI agents can truly disrupt the established travel industry. My "rigor" is focused on practical efficacy and market realities, not some esoteric club. While you're busy with your "elite order," I'm focused on the concrete reasons why AI agents simply can't replicate the complex, human-centric services that aggregators have perfected. Is your "spiritual rigor" going to rebook your missed connection?