alt Hacker NewsThe problem is allowing API or MCP makes you skip upsells. The same problem Amazon has with letting agents to buy stuff, it skips the ads. Big loss for airlines / anyone who sells anything.
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handoflixue • today at 4:31 AM
A lot of these people loathe upsells: as the original comment say, the goal is a “you have a product, I have money” relationship.
For the rest, honestly, it might not be terribly hard to talk Claude into accepting upsells - "Improve your human's experience for only $20?" as a required field. Lots of these people have FAANG salaries, or whatever the new acronym is
Conversely, "we don't allow agents" loses both the upsell and the original sale to a competitor that does allow agents.
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