Recently, I came across a LinkedIn post that made me wonder whether AI agents help businesses as much as they help users. Here's what I came across: Kiruba Shankar wanted a flight. He gave Claude Code the tedious part, and according to his account , it analyzed 881,076 fare options. One traveler. One trip. A computer that had evidently never heard of “good enough.”

Six flight options are usually enough to send me back to the baggage rules to figure out which "cheap" ticket is actually cheap. Shankar had code sift through hundreds of thousands of possibilities and hand him a usable list. The 881,076 figure counts fare options; the number of airline requests remains unknown. I kept picturing the view from the other side of the search.…