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- Hacker News
- Promotional blog post trying to sell you their product.by andsoitis
- This is probably one of the least promotional blog posts on this website. This gives many people valuable information about the state of agentic commerce and offers a solution to many of the problems.by kevinfee
- Because I don't want to order toilet paper and accidentaly have a monster-cock ordered insteadby vrighter
- try having an agent buy you something. That fear is not the reality.by kevinfee
- Would love to know if any of you all have used an agent to make a purchase, and if so, how it went?
If you haven't I would love to know why not and if I missed any reasons why people aren't using it yet.
Thanks!
by kevinfee - Have you used agents to buy stuff on your behalf? What things have you bought in this way?
And what are things you bought but decided to do yourself rather than use and agent?
by andsoitis - I have never done this.
The amount of time that I spend making digital purchases is low. Having an agent do things wouldn't save me much time even if I could completely trust it. I would still need to interact with this agent for item selection and I'd need to babysit it for correctness. For things that I buy regularly basically every service has an option for regular purchases.
I genuinely cannot conceive of a circumstance where having an agent make purchases for me would improve my life.
by UncleMeat