and you could have potentially one person could have a million AI agents doing stuff for you. But I say I don't believe this is a fruitful direction because if you had one AI agent and you told it to make some hotel reservations, it wouldn't be a big burden on you to check and make sure it did it right and then correct whatever wasn't right. But if you had a million agents that were doing things on your behalf or even a hundred, how in the world would you supervise all that? And would you feel comfortable that if you didn't supervise it, the AI was going to go and do it correctly, the way you want, and not cause you any problems? I don't know. I feel like there will be a natural limit to how many AI agents anybody will ever want working on their behalf because you've got to check their work all the time. So maybe three might be your limit. Not a million.

Well, Delta Airlines, according to Fortune magazine, Aruna Yanova is writing, they're eliminating set prices for their flights in favor of having the AI determine how much you personally will pay for a ticket. And apparently this is already being rolled out and it's being tested on a small percentage of their customers. To which I asked the question on X and everybody had the same answer. How much would you be happy to find out that the price you were paying for your airline ticket at Delta was determined by the AI figuring out the most you were willing to pay? I can't think of anything that would make me hate the company more than that. Can you? Because how would the AI determine how much you're willing to pay? What does it know about you?

Let me give you an example. Let's say one of your parents is elderly and you're making frequent flights to spend time with them. Wouldn't Delta figure out that this person is going to book those frequent flights because there's obviously something on the other end that's important to that person. And so they raise the price for you to see your dying parents. Now it wouldn't know it's doing that. It would just say, I feel like this person's going to pay a little more for a ticket because they fly a lot. So there must be something on the other end of that flight that they really care about. How in the world could it possibly charge me more than other people for whatever it is I want where I wouldn't want to go in with a machine gun and kill everybody at their company. Don't do that, by the way. That is not a call to violence. Oh my god. I really can't think of a worse idea, but we'll see. They swear they're going to roll it out.

All right. Trump announced yesterday that they're cutting federal funding for California's ridiculous high-speed rail project. They had billions of dollars approved but it managed to build basically no high-speed rail at all. And I said to myself, well that'll teach California because once that federal funding is cut, there's no way they're going to keep wasting this money. But then I looked at the context and the entire project is currently estimated to cost 128 billion to build California's high-speed rail. I didn't even know they were still working on it. Did anybody know that? I thought that project was killed a long time ago. But the amount — and that's the estimate is four times the original estimated price of 33 billion. So it went from I think we could do this for 33 billion to I don't know but we might be able to get it done for 128 billion. And you learn that after you start.

That's like every project I did in my corporate days. It was my job to evaluate vendors for various technology purchases that we needed. And so I'd go out for a bid. I'd ask companies to bid on it. All right, we need to replace this internal storage device. And then all the companies would bid. And then I would take the lo