Gemini didn’t miss; Day Made is extremely my shit. The coffee was great and the vibes were immaculate. The cardamom bun that Gemini said I should get wasn’t available, so I got a pastry with guava jelly to compensate for the dismal weather. I watched the Artemis II launch on mute, left the shop at 3:40 as Gemini had instructed, and got on my last bus of the day. The time when I walked in the door at home? 4:26. Nailed it. If my big day out in the city was a success — and I think it was! — then it was made possible by people, not Gemini. People wrote the reviews and recommendations that led me to Tacos Chukis. Gemini is just the middleman. But when you’re dealing with a vast and often overwhelming dataset like the one in Google Maps, a tool like Gemini strikes me as a very useful one.

Source: I let Gemini in Google Maps plan my day and it went surprisingly well - The Verge

Allison Johnson illustrates two points in this article:

First: An LLM is the ideal middleware for our information glut. Making signal from noise is the real consumer value. This is why Google developed transformers - to help with Google Translate. It is also why they are still best suited to productize it for the public.

Second: Leveraging these tools to buy less and do more is a consumer’s ultimate leverage - the act of building over the passive gravity of consuming.

What Allison achieved here by leveraging Google to go out and do real things in the real world - I aim to do more of that.