AI agents today feel like online shopping in 1996

Charlie Deets compares today's AI agent experience to a 1996 online shopping video where buying a camera took nearly 10 minutes, predicting agents will get dramatically faster just as e-commerce did.

2026-09-02 ~ 2026-09-03 · 2 related posts

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• A 10-minute 1996 purchase flow is today's agent wait: designing for when LLMs get instant — charliedeets · 2026-09-03