AI Agents' Actual Purchasing Capabilities Fall Short of Agentic Commerce Hype
A post cataloguing what AI agents can actually purchase today, finding the real capability list much shorter than the marketing narrative around agentic commerce suggests. Points to a gap between AI agent commerce hype and the current state of merchant/payment integration support.
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