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I’m going to be honest this sounds like it’s making fun of all the AI bros insisting we need to “pause” to consider the dangers of “superintelligent” AI while ignoring the actual problems.
It’s kinda shocking that people can’t seem to detect pretty obvious satire.
A lot of people reading this are thinking they are going to charge you for food that you didn’t order. That’s not it.
Accurate predictions can be used for tons of things, like advertising. If they predict that you are in the mood for a burrito but don’t know it yet, they can push a Youtube ad about doordashing burritos, to get you to order.
At a large scale it can be used for planning and logistics. Prediction that Bob wants a pizza? Re-route dasher A to be closer to the pizza place so that dasher A can fulfill more orders once Bob makes the order.
Prediction that Bob hates big tech, would never buy premium doordash, and is only ordering today because he has no other choice? Deprioritize his order, he can get his pizza cold.
Except last time I tried to use Doordash and it took them two hours to finally assign a dasher to get my burrito only for them to message me that it was a food truck and that it was closed… It is a real brick and mortar restaurant that I’ve been to multiple times before. The only thing Doordash is good at is dynamic pricing and increasing the price on the menu based on what they think you will pay.
I bought an ebike online recently and it was 4 days late being delivered. Every day FedEx said it was on the truck for delivery, then every day, the delivery window shifted, before finally getting pushed back to the next day (after their call center was closed).
I finally went outside while the trick was stopped at my house and the guy asked what it was. When I told him it was an ebike, he told me they probably couldn’t fit it on his over packed truck.
I wound up just going to the depot and getting it myself.I say that to commiserate - it seems companies are squeezing their workers to (and beyond) the limit where they can successfully carry out their work.
Just like any service that was born out of a need and was recognised as a great source of money, its sole purpose now is to extract capital and swiftly put it in the pockets of the already obscenely wealthy.
If doordash wants to preemptively deliver me a burrito, that’s fine. Just don’t expect me to be paying for it.
Then how come every one of my deliveries is cold and an hour later than the app claims it will be?
Yeah. They need to slow their roll. They can’t even execute on “give me exactly what I ask for when I ask for it” so how the fuck do they think they’re on some Minority Report shit for Chipotle? And they sure as fuck are nowhere near doing that without exploiting and ripping off everyone else involved.
Probably because they figured it was more profitable that way. Maybe they prioritized more premium customers
Because you didn’t pick it up you lazy bastard.
Nickname checks out
What you have to understand is that these AI fucks are using AI to grade their product. I’m sure Claude gave this person some code that produced results that Claude said meant they could near predict people’s orders.
Back in the day you got pizza in 30 minutes or less. Now it’s over an hour, it’s cold, and not quite what you ordered.
Now get offa mah lawn!
Translation, when I was young my parents could afford a home in a nice area with lots of local cuisine. My generation isnt so lucky.
pizza is made and delivered everywhere, wdym
Theres plenty of places nowhere near shops and restaurants, wdym?
that’s what the delivery is for
unless you live in like an area outside of a city, which in my case would be the nicest part of town
Damn, small city.
Urban sprawl doesnt always work like that though. Often residential areas extend faster than the amenities catch up.
Poor little victim
Edit: your username is funny
I was translating.
You can tell by the first word.
Im not particularly hard up just saying a lot of people are.
Unsure why that upset you.
Decide you want it
This implies there is ever a time I do not want a burrito.
Decide I can afford it is more accurate.
Eating burritos is the only thing that differentiates us from LLMs at this point
Have you tried vibe coding an app for that (burrito eating)? Then you could add an MPC server and give the poor LLMs a way to eat burritos too.
If you deliver a burrito to my door and then tell me to pay for it, and I never asked, there’s going to be a fight.
I will drive my car through the front wall of DoorDash before I’ll pay them for a burrito I did not order.
The right approach is “whaaat?! You made me a gift?? Thank you!” takes the burrito and closes the door
I agree, I’m just saying if I see the bill on my credit card, there will be consequences, and if I can’t resolve it amicably, then I have a car that I’m willing to sacrifice for the cause.
I’m out dashing rn and I have no idea what this person is saying
I think its a satire on AI company people saying we’re close to a technological singularity, given the “we’re asking for a pause” is a phrase commonly associated with that
They’re likely saying that data collection/analysis on customer’s eating habits is getting to the point that they can almost predict when you’ll be hungry, and the next step is to deliver food to you before you even order it.
If you order a burrito at 11:30 every day, their goal is to have a burrito delivered to your door at 11:30 every day, without you even ordering it.
Which honestly, is kind of terrifying. I don’t want a company knowing my habits so well that they predict what I want and then order it without my consent.
About 15 years ago when I was at my most depressed and least healthy, I used to get 3 pizzas every weekend (Saturday dinner, Sunday lunch, Sunday dinner) because that worked out as the cheapest deal. One week I only got a single pizza and the delivery guy commented on it, just something small like “Oh only one today?” I never got Dominos again.
LMAO that’s diabolical
Same thing happened to me… was having takeout Indian curry every day; skipped one day and they asked me why. Made it feel really weird. Like, did I sign up for a responsibility or contract to get curry every day?
And are they going to be charging you for it without your consent?
What happens when you’re taking a vacation for a week? You’ll come home to find 7 cold, decomposing burritos on your doorstep and $300 deducted from your bank account.
I saw it a second time and think that they’re forecasting your decision, so they deliver the burrito before you realize that you want one.
Damn, like Minority Report for food. PreDine Division.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6k8OBBuox8&t=53s
Giant bomb & Jeff Gerstmann covered this already
Didn’t Amazon experiment with preemptive dispatch years ago?
