since i been on the other side of seeding almost two years now, the ppl who receive stuff do not influence ppl to buy the product i think its a good finesse rn, be fortunate you can still get product while you can because yall gonna have to prove you can sell product soon

A few weeks ago @jbahrdestefano texted his Instinct agent and told it to find him a table at 4 Charles in New York. The bot went to work but overdid it: the constant API calls got JC's @resy account flagged for bot activity and they banned him. The whole episode went viral, and started off a bigger conversation about the emergence of personal AI agents and where they can go off the rails. There's little surprise as to why people might want to outsource some of these painful processes. Getting a table at a restaurant now requires navigating different credit card reward tiers and reservation platforms. Insurance, airline, and utility companies make talking to an actual person basically impossible. I get it. Turnabout is fair play. I knew that restaurant reservations were one of the major use cases for these pocket bots, but that the tech's impacts were going way beyond that. What happens when you try to take friction away or, more accurately, what happens when you shift friction away from yourself and onto someone else? Isn't there some joy in frustration? What happens when everything is sanded down to one smooth layer? I talked to some restauranteurs, including the folks behind Semma and Jean-Georges, the Resy co-founder @benleventhal, and JC—who was exceptionally thoughtful and reflective about the whole ordeal—to try and answer those questions for @CNN. cnn.com/2026/09/23/tech/ai-a…

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