Sneaker botting was the prototype of agentic commerce, engineers recall
gregbarbosa · x · 2026-09-11
- gregbarbosa recalls learning Shopify, automations, APIs, location spoofing, and network sniffing just to cop a pair of Yeezys—skills that paid off thousands in debt and shaped his current career.
- Quoting panzer: peak sneaker twitter was full of talented engineers cutting their teeth on what was essentially the prototype for agentic commerce.
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