Discovery of the same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search

AI mode doesn't even search. I'll ask it to build a placeholder on the UI for an empty HTML table when there are no seats anymore, it is all raw token usage nowadays. Very limited study. A lot of planning and work went into executing that modernization project from what was originally a fairly unique system. And 45-50% energy savings per year is a great ROI. Not to shit on their effort or anything, but it looks like it is surfacing the manufacturers page, and then random 3rd parties have it cheaper, which is pretty commmon.

At least in a few examples it looks like a VS Code fork + an agent panel which is very ... late 2024 energy? It's said Astra is based on normal top search results, which are useless, and I have to go to Bing instead.