Patrick Collison: personal agents are a structural subsidy for good products
sujingshen · x · 2026-10-11
A Chinese commentator unpacks Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison's argument on how AI agents reshape commerce: agents buy based on specs, price and return policies — not brand ads or landing-page adjectives. Traffic interception stops working when every consumer has an agent doing ten hours of research; companies profiting from information asymmetry (forced upsells, forgotten subscriptions) will feel the pain within a year or two, while teams making genuinely good products get a structural subsidy.
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