Consumer Agent Debate Heats Up Over Business Models and E-commerce

Weekend discussions on consumer agents like instinct and muse surfaced open questions from bidding mechanisms to agent-to-agent hiring, with some arguing agents will bypass e-commerce platforms to buy directly from sellers, and others favoring iMessage over standalone apps.

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