alt Hacker NewsI still get picked up by an Uber the same way. As an end user, nothing has changed for me.
So I wonder what the heck were all those billions of AI tokens burnt on that they extinguished it in just 4 months into the year?
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Apparently:
* In App Hotel bookings in partnership with Expedia.
* Travel Mode with suggestions on where to eat and visit when travelling.
* Eats for the way - your driver picks up a takeaway for you to eat while they drive you to your destination.
* Voice bookings using AI and speech to text.
How did we ever live without them!
There's probably tons of backend projects going on, expanding in countries, payments, complying with regulations, effeciency and reliability projects. They also do food delivery. There's a whole engineering team to support
This argument is funny because you could have said the same thing 4 years ago: Uber still picks you up just as it did years before that, so what did all those millions spent on developer salaries get them?
Uber’s business is relentlessly confusing for people who think it’s a simple app to send an alert to a nearby driver to pick you up.
Uber operates at a scale where there are no trivial problems because even small changes can impact hundred of thousands of customers. They can also justify spending time and money on new features that only 0.1% of customers might use because 0.1% of their customers is a very large number.