How I Beat Airbnb's Pricing Algorithm With Vibe Coding

I spent years inside the machine that prices your Airbnb and your hotel room. Here's the ten-cent data it runs on, and the six AI skills I used to beat it.

"I fucking hate booking hotels. I wish I could just get an AI to do this for me."

That's a voice note I sent myself, six hotel tabs deep, which is embarrassing because this is supposed to be the thing I know about.

One of my first part time jobs in college was at a small vacation-rental management company where I was mostly there to sign up new owners, bu…