🤖 Agents replace the browse-and-click layer and disintermediate consumer apps
Agentic AI collapses the browse-and-click paradigm: the browser and the app-store front end stop being where consumers transact, and an assistant executes the task end to end. Consumer internet businesses whose value is the booking/discovery interface lose the customer relationship to whoever owns the agent, so the front-end aggregators derate.
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CONVICTION
peaked 69.2 GREEN
DORMANT
band
▼ SHORT BKNG
expression · bearish tech
PARTIAL
outcome · R +21.3% · α -1.1%
2026-07-11
window closed
⚖ Why this verdict
fully deterministic — evaluate.py replays this from daily closes; nothing below is editable or hand-set
- Window: 2025-07-11 → 2026-07-11 — first mention + 12-month horizon, then the window locks.
- The call: ▼ SHORT BKNG (primary play). BKNG fell 21.3% over the window → direction-adjusted R = +21.3% (the call made money).
- Benchmark: holding SPY over the same window returned +22.4%
→ α = +21.3 − (+22.4) = -1.1%
— what this call made or lost against just owning the index. This is the number the verdict uses.
Stock-selection read: +43.7% — did BKNG move the predicted way relative to the market. The two only differ on a SHORT: this call was right about direction relative to the index but still cost money versus holding it.
- Rule fired:
· HIT — R ≥ +10% AND α ≥ +5▶ PARTIAL — R ≥ +5% OR α ≥ 0· MISS — everything else
- Credit: supporters of a PARTIAL earn 0.5 each, opposers the inverse — this feeds the scoreboard weights. supported: Chamath, Jason, Travis Kalanick | proxy-sensitive: ABNB→MISS (-9.8%); EXPE→MISS (-48.6%)
Conviction timeline
bands: green ≥ 65 · watch ≥ 45 · ember ≥ 15
Plays vs SPY · % since first mention (2025-07-11)
Plays
| expression | symbol | kind | relevance | rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▼ SHORT | BKNG | stock | PRIMARY | travel booking is the canonical agentic task demoed on the show - flight search and checkout executed without visiting the site |
| ▼ SHORT | ABNB | stock | adjacent | app-store consumer marketplace whose discovery layer an agent can intercept |
| ▼ SHORT | EXPE | stock | adjacent | OTA front end with the same interface-as-moat exposure and thinner brand |
Mention log
Chamath
tech w=0.90 · n=83
· E235 (2025-07-11) · explicit_prediction · strength 3
▶ 53:20
SUPPORT
“When you do the random sprawl, I think it doesn't work, but I just want to say a browser is the dumbest thing to build in 2025 Because in a world of agents, what is a browser? It's a glorified markup reader. It's like handling HTML. It's handling CSS and JavaScript.”
TR
Travis Kalanick
(regular guest ×1.0)
tech w=1.33 · n=6
· E235 (2025-07-11) · explicit_prediction · strength 2
▶ 50:31
SUPPORT
“I do know that every consumer software CEO that has an app in the app store is trippin. They're trippin right now. And I mean big boys. I mean guys with real stuff.”
Who built this conviction
each voice's total force on the score — supports and opposes from every mention, weighted exactly as the replay applied them · share = % of all mention-driven movement
⏳ decay drained -58.2 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one
Score events
| episode | kind | Δ | after | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E235 2025-07-11 | init | +46.7 | 46.7 | E235 born by Travis Kalanick (explicit_prediction x2) [w=1.33] |
| E235 2025-07-11 | reinforce | +12.6 | 59.3 | E235 Jason support x2 (new voice) [w=1.05] |
| E235 2025-07-11 | reinforce | +9.9 | 69.2 | E235 Chamath support x3 (new voice) [w=0.90] |
| E236 2025-07-19 | decay | -2.8 | 66.5 | E236 silent |
| E237 2025-08-01 | decay | -2.7 | 63.8 | E237 silent |
| E238 2025-08-09 | decay | -2.6 | 61.3 | E238 silent |
| E239 2025-08-15 | decay | -2.5 | 58.8 | E239 silent |
| E240 2025-08-22 | decay | -2.4 | 56.5 | E240 silent |
| E241 2025-08-29 | decay | -2.3 | 54.2 | E241 silent |
| E242 2025-09-07 | decay | -2.2 | 52.0 | E242 silent |
| E243 2025-09-19 | decay | -2.1 | 49.9 | E243 silent |
| E244 2025-09-27 | decay | -2.0 | 47.9 | E244 silent |
| E245 2025-10-03 | decay | -1.9 | 46.0 | E245 silent |
| E246 2025-10-10 | decay | -1.8 | 44.2 | E246 silent |
| E247 2025-10-17 | decay | -1.8 | 42.4 | E247 silent |
| E248 2025-10-24 | decay | -1.7 | 40.7 | E248 silent |
| E249 2025-10-31 | decay | -1.6 | 39.1 | E249 silent |
| E250 2025-11-07 | decay | -1.6 | 37.5 | E250 silent |
| E251 2025-11-14 | decay | -1.5 | 36.0 | E251 silent |
| E252 2025-11-22 | decay | -1.4 | 34.6 | E252 silent |
| E253 2025-12-06 | decay | -1.4 | 33.2 | E253 silent |
| E254 2025-12-13 | decay | -1.3 | 31.9 | E254 silent |
| E255 2025-12-19 | decay | -1.3 | 30.6 | E255 silent |
| E256 2025-12-31 | decay | -1.2 | 29.4 | E256 silent |
| E257 2026-01-10 | decay | -1.2 | 28.2 | E257 silent |
| E258 2026-01-17 | decay | -1.1 | 27.1 | E258 silent |
| E259 2026-01-30 | decay | -1.1 | 26.0 | E259 silent |
| E260 2026-02-07 | decay | -1.0 | 25.0 | E260 silent |
| E261 2026-02-13 | decay | -1.0 | 24.0 | E261 silent |
| E262 2026-02-28 | decay | -1.0 | 23.0 | E262 silent |
| E263 2026-03-06 | decay | -0.9 | 22.1 | E263 silent |
| E264 2026-03-13 | decay | -0.9 | 21.2 | E264 silent |
| E265 2026-03-19 | decay | -0.8 | 20.3 | E265 silent |
| E266 2026-03-27 | decay | -0.8 | 19.5 | E266 silent |
| E267 2026-04-03 | decay | -0.8 | 18.8 | E267 silent |
| E268 2026-04-10 | decay | -0.8 | 18.0 | E268 silent |
| E269 2026-04-17 | decay | -0.7 | 17.3 | E269 silent |
| E270 2026-04-24 | decay | -0.7 | 16.6 | E270 silent |
| E271 2026-05-01 | decay | -0.7 | 15.9 | E271 silent |
| E272 2026-05-08 | decay | -0.6 | 15.3 | E272 silent |
| E273 2026-05-15 | decay | -0.6 | 14.7 | E273 silent |
| E274 2026-05-22 | decay | -0.6 | 14.1 | E274 silent |
| E275 2026-05-29 | decay | -0.6 | 13.5 | E275 silent |
| E276 2026-06-13 | decay | -0.5 | 13.0 | E276 silent |
| E277 2026-06-19 | decay | -0.5 | 12.5 | E277 silent |
| E278 2026-06-26 | decay | -0.5 | 12.0 | E278 silent |
| E279 2026-07-03 | decay | -0.5 | 11.5 | E279 silent |
| E280 2026-07-11 | decay | -0.5 | 11.0 | E280 silent |