Agents may already be good enough to shop when paired with spending controls
kevinfee · reddit · 2026-08-04
The author asks whether anyone has had an agent actually buy things for them, and what they bought if so. They note that in their own experiments, agents seem surprisingly good at shopping when paired with spending controls like Authoryze and single-use credential issuance.
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