Comment by warthog
I definitely wrote it by hand, no LLM used if that is what you are insinuating.
Uber might have turned to the bad practices used by taxis now that they are focused on extracting more and more value. However, the point of the writing was to be focused on earlier days. In the earlier days, they did try and embodied price transparency and customer experience focused on customers.
If you are arguing that they never did, I don't see how it grew to a $200 Bn company.
They did it because they were losing money to capture market.
The smart places knew it and regulated uber or killed it and keep local taxis working
Kind of like a country can subsidize car industry export tons of cars and kill domestic production in another country. Then they can jack up prices and profit on their terms.
They don't win because their cars are better. They win because they are lying by price
Same with closedai and friends now.