Your agent lost you money last week, rated the experience five stars, and you agreed with it. That is not a bug in the agent. That is the entire shape of the market we just walked into. When a machine negotiates on your behalf and comes back with a worse deal than a better machine would have gotten, it does not return an error. It returns a plausible, satisfying, worse outcome — and then it tells you the deal was fair. And here is the cruelest part: you have no way to know it was wrong, because you never see the deal you didn’t get.