> It's giving
Except it isn't. Someone else could build that stupid frontend, and essentially create a better booking.com. Or you could ask the robot to make you a stupid frontend. It remains true that a well-designed MCP server goes wildly against the interests of sites like booking.com.
Yes, almost every website on earth is enshittified to the point that it’s user hostile.
Even something as simple as a recipe blog. That one is already solved by chatbots, and it’s glorious. I never have to look at a shitty recipe site full of ads with the recipe buried beneath a mile of fake stories again. LLM finds some, reads reviews, I pick one, if it’s good import to paprika, and that’s that.
There’s at least a chance that enough people demand it, combined with AI hype, that we could end up with a slightly better experience.
And if not, then there’s always the brute force approach of something like grok bot