AI agents are 'customers with a credit card and no eyes' — and AEO is the new battleground
ramagetime · x · 2026-11-03
A sharp framing: an AI agent is "a customer with a credit card and no eyes." It doesn't care about your $100k homepage video — it wants prices, shipping, and returns.
The author says his team is now doing AEO work: structuring product info so agents can parse it easily, because if it's hard for the agent, it simply buys somewhere else. E-commerce optimization is shifting from human-facing polish to machine readability.
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