This is exactly why I’ve been using AI (ChatGPT agent mode) for shopping and travel to evaluate value.
It instantly compares features, real prices, and value across everything. Turns you into a genuinely intelligent shopper, compared to only shopping by brand names.
It's not just luxury hotels that are a scam, it's almost everything that's luxury that's a scam
Gf bought Rimowa suitcases, expensive and supposed to be better quality than regular ones, but of course they're much worse
They keep breaking, like all of them, cracks in the handles, cracks in the sides, it's just cheap plastic shit but it costs $1000 or more
Rimowa was bought by LVMH in 2016 which has an average profit margin of 66% and whose strategy is to increase prices by ~5x, decrease costs by ~5x and then create artificial scarcity (limited availability per shop) because people want what they can't get (not me though but many)
LVMH is kinda like the luxury version of private equity, it makes everything more expensive and worse and hard to get!
Been testing Grok heavily for searches and fact checking lately and I'm genuinely impressed.
It's ridiculously fast at pulling real-time info, stays succinct instead of rambling like ChatGPT, and the writing style just hits better.
Most importantly: Grok searches the web by default. ChatGPT feels lazy, it usually sticks to old training data. Grok actually goes out and finds fresh info quickly and accurately.
There has been a lot of negativity around @antigravity 's launch in the last few days, and I'm not sure why. There were a few issues at the beginning, but today I retried it, and it's definitely faster than many tools out there like Codex and Claude Code.