Use cases for agentic super-optimisers:
Refinancing car loans
Switching to better credit cards
Remortgaging your house
Switching insurance providers
As a collective we vandalised and desecrated email infrastructure. No respect. And now we never have to deal with it again thanks to personal agents. Deus Ex Machina
In speaking to many merchants, it’s obvious that they simply Don’t Care about agent traffic yet. Many don’t even see it as a threat to their ads. So early
Someone who first lets an agent manage their money will trust it much quicker than someone who first lets it book flights
It goes without saying that intent is the core source of leverage that agents have vs the merchants like Amazon. Whether they are willing to compromise it to gain access is the fundamental question
Browser use will continue to be used by agents until merchants and agents compromise. What could this look like?
Would browser use have worked for Supreme drops? Clunkiness seems like a blocker to many use cases requiring speed
Personal agent apps (e.g. @hark_labs, Frida) seem best for async tasks (e.g. todos). But for real time stuff, PAs in WhatsApp/iMessage (e.g. @pally, @instinct) working better for me (e.g. quickly shifting calendar)