I built an AI tool that negotiated hotel prices for me. One hotel suspected it was AI, but it got me a better deal.

Maahir Sharma, 24, built an AI agent that called hotels and negotiated room rates on his behalf. Maahir Sharma Maahir Sharma built an AI agent to call hotels on his behalf and negotiate room rates. In one call, a hotel representative suspected the caller was AI but lowered the quoted rate by $5. The Big Tech software engineer experiments about 20 hours a week outside work with AI tools. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maahir Sharma, a 24-year-old software engineer base...