There’s something oddly brilliant about outsourcing your curiosity to an AI that doesn’t get tired or awkward. After all, if an AI agent can call thousands of pubs and build a Guinness price index, why stop there? Why not send one loose into the wild to track the cost of your daily caffeine fix or your late-night ramen cravings?

I’m sold — I want one of those

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That’s exactly the kind of domino effect sparked by a recent experiment inspired by Rachel Duffy from The Traitors . A developer built an AI voice agent that sounded natural enough to chat up bartenders and casually ask for Guinness prices, compiling the data into a public index. It worked so well that most people on the other end didn’t even clock that they were speaking to a machine. And just like that, a slightly chaotic, very clever idea turned into something surprisingly useful.

Now imagine applying that same idea to coffee and ramen.…