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by J_Shelby_J 999 days ago
The modern internet and modern app experience has become so shitty. For example opening up Robinhood, transferring money from a bank account, and buying a stock is hidden behind a multitude of product driven dark patterns that turns what should be a low cognitive load task into a high cognitive load task. This is true for everything now days.

I predict llm based agents will be used as a 3rd party layer on top of the modern web to work in users favor against enshitification.

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> I predict llm based agents will be used as a 3rd party layer on top of the modern web to work in users favor against enshitification.

I'm predicting the opposite -- LLMs will be used to turn Dark Patterns into Vantablack Patterns.

If we're talking about the future here, it makes much more sense that you'd be buying stocks directly using currency stored on your phones hardware wallet through a DEX like Uniswap. In fact, you might just tell your phone that you want to buy X amount of stock, and it would do it all for you onchain.
Wouldn’t this avoid a lot of ad exposure that companies are currently enjoying? Why would they want to give that up by allowing you to use your llm instead?