He Used AI Agents to Plan His Europe Trip. Muse Was His Favorite.

This as-told-to essay is predicated on a dialog with Jay Eskenazi. He lives in Los Angeles and labored in consumer expertise for 19 years. It has been edited for size and readability.

I am in Paris, and I will Barcelona tomorrow. The journey is three weeks.

I got here right here for the primary time final yr, and it was my first lengthy journey on my own. Final yr, planning it was very annoying, and I did a ton of analysis.

This yr was the identical factor, the place I had these very lengthy notes. At this level, everybody is aware of you can go to any AI software and say: “Hey, I will Metropolis X, give me an itinerary for seven days.”

I had this epiphany a couple of weeks in the past, the place I noticed I had all these notice information, bulleted stuff, and low outlets to go to.

If somebody gave you an inventory of 5 espresso outlets they usually had been in 5 totally different cities, as somebody who’s not aware of the terrain, you would not essentially know the right way to construction that in the midst of the day. Which espresso store goes with which museum?

So, as an alternative of doing an itinerary, I used to be like: “Here is my notes. Put them collectively in an organized approach for me. Construction them in a logical sequence.”

I hadn’t used Claude shortly, so I attempted that a little bit. I take advantage of Grok so much, and I simply upgraded as a result of I wished to play with the Grok Bot. So, I made this actually fancy itinerary. I stored iterating it. It did a extremely good job. Then I acquired right here and was like, “It is not pretty much as good.”

I am naturally curious, so I attempted out Muse. I believe I have to’ve gotten Muse two days earlier than I left.

I used to be taking a look at this itinerary a few days in the past and was like, “I do not like what it says tomorrow.” So I opened Muse and requested for a day itinerary. It spat out all of these items. I used to be like: “Oh! There’s some new stuff in right here.”

These are actually widespread situations. Perhaps there are 5 museums you wish to go to. It takes quite a lot of work: this museum’s closed on Tuesday, this one’s closed on Monday, and this one’s free subsequent Friday. The AI instruments can construction that in a approach that you’d do should you had a thousand hours.

It is a small factor, however while you apply that to a thousand resolution factors, it does a very nice job of placing these issues collectively.

For those who’re like: “Hey, I wish to go get espresso, then I would like one thing to do earlier than I get lunch, then I wish to go to the museum this afternoon.” Many of the different AI instruments will simply provide the record. Then you definately’re like, how do I get from place to position to position?

Muse would really put it on a map with dots. I clicked a button, and it put it in Google Maps. I had this expertise this weekend. Not one of the different instruments did that.

I will Barcelona tomorrow, and I will get there within the night. One of many causes I picked it was as a result of there’s an annual competition. I timed it so I could be there for the core of the actions. However the primary actions weren’t printed, even final week, as a result of they’re on some web site in Spanish that did not have the absolutely fleshed-out program.

Within the hourlong Uber to Versailles, I used to be like, “What is the construction for Thursday?” It is in a position to pull that. It is acquired: this opens within the morning, that is free, that is mid-day, that is within the night.

I do not know if ChatGPT would have it. Perhaps it will, nevertheless it does not appear to output it in the identical approach. Additionally, I gave it entry to my e-mail, so it is aware of I am leaving tomorrow. It has an thought tab that mentioned, “I can map the opening evening earlier than you get there.” It is proactive.

The opposite factor: I used to be indecisive about my plans during the last couple of days. What Muse was doing was checking the instances to see what ticket availability seemed like. It is doing this proactive factor for you, the place it tracks it, as a result of choices are shrinking.

As a non-developer, I set up OpenClaw in February. That took quite a lot of time. I had a developer good friend assist me for hours. Then I had all these AWS payments I did not perceive. I am asking it to offer me a recipe; I do not know what number of tokens that is going to price. I ended up having to close it down.

Muse is like OpenClaw for normies. For those who’re not a tech particular person, these items are helpful as a result of they do what an assistant would. Anybody might set this up.

It comes again to after I labored at Expedia. These are the issues {that a} very seasoned journey agent from 30 years in the past would’ve accomplished for you. That may be a really costly trip for that stage of service.

I additionally simply acquired access to Instinct yesterday, as a result of I used to be on the waitlist. I am very curious, however you may’t see precisely what it is doing. It had good concepts and gave me an itinerary, nevertheless it needed to put them in a Google Doc. I used to be additionally confused as a result of I do not keep in mind what I informed it, and it made customized suggestions. I used to be like: “Wait, how did it know this?”

Muse simply appears simpler. It’s extremely quick, and it feels extra responsive.