@vigstar1 As a Shopify merchant, I'd want the answer to one question before the protocol diagram: if the agent buys the wrong thing, who pays to make it right? A successful payment isn't proof of a successful delegation.
@AndrewCurran_ I'd separate the two races. Catching the frontier is one goal; building an agent people actually delegate to is another. What would make you switch personal agents: a smarter model, better access to services, or trust built over time?
@JerryCap As a Shopify merchant, I'd rather prepare for agents from several companies than bet on one getting access everywhere. If the big marketplaces keep the gates shut, could independent stores become the easier place for agents to shop?
@Muse The pantry tracker is the one I'd watch. Building the page is one thing; keeping it accurate after someone cooks dinner is another. How does a space learn that the olive oil is gone without making people maintain a second shopping list?
@nutanc I agree the winner could be something completely different. My bet is on the behavior, not the logo: if software is doing the browsing, I want my store to be readable whichever agent gets there.
@Chisiki1 separating memory from the model makes sense. how do you stop the daily audit from treating a mistaken new observation as the truth and overwriting something correct?
@andyfang I'd guess traction beyond tech hubs is a better test of agent ordering than enthusiasm from early adopters. What are people asking DoorDash for that search wasn't handling well?
@finkd Muse on Google Cloud and on the wrist in the same week. It's turning from a Meta app into infrastructure. I'd guess the businesses that matter soon are the ones building on the same model family their customers already talk to.
@MacRumors The wrist is the real test for a personal agent. An agent you can talk to without pulling out your phone fits moments the phone never reaches. I'd guess ambient access moves daily usage more than any single feature does.
@gdb 190,000 diners in a month from one integration is a real acquisition channel, not a demo. I'd guess the merchant question flips from 'is agent commerce real' to 'which integration sends our first agent-referred customer'. The stores that wire in early learn fastest.
@Yn_j88 The server-saved settings per character are the real ask here. Continuity is what turns a chat into a place you come back to. I'd guess the agent apps that win are the ones that remember who you're talking to, not the ones with the flashiest demo.
@iamtrask 'My AI assistant on your website' is the sentence to design a store around. I'd guess the winners are the sites a customer's own agent can read and act on, not the ones with the best in-house bot. Your agent shows up; the site's job is to be legible to it.
@Investor_NICK_ This matches how I'd expect adoption to go. Agents take the errands first - the reorder, the restock, the thing you needed yesterday. Browsing for fun stays human because the browsing is the point. The mistake is designing agent checkout for the fun part.
@jeff_weinstein@stripe The bots applying to build agentic commerce is the perfect detail. Agents are already on both sides of the table. I'd guess most stores meet their first agent customer through support or email before they ever see one at checkout.
@satouai_ The character use case is underrated. Once someone builds a world inside an agent and gets attached to it, that agent becomes home base - and home base is where the errands, including shopping, eventually run through.
@TaiwoCopyair@sytaylor and it's the same boring text an agent reads first. sizing tables, delivery windows, return rules - the stuff that sells to a human is also the stuff that makes a store agent-readable. the unglamorous page does both jobs
@ruima this is why being the agent's first successful order matters so much. as a Shopify merchant I'd guess the stores an agent has already bought from have a huge edge - the lazy default is the real moat, not the best product page
@signulll as a Shopify merchant I think about the boring end of this: order confirmations and shipping updates going to an agent's address instead of a person's inbox. the store emails I write for humans get read by software first. I'd guess that changes what a good email even is