
Remember when ChatGPT launched and every startup founder you know started throwing around the word "democratization"? Most of that was marketing fluff. But strip away the buzzwords, and AI does have one genuine superpower: it can tear through data sources faster than any human.
So I decided to turn AI loose on the often frustrating endeavor of finding flight prices that are actually affordable. Could Google’s flight tools, ChatGPT, and Claude replicate what I normally do with price comparison sites loaded on multiple tabs, all flashing warnings that there are only two seats on the plane left?