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    AI Agents

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    2 receipts on AI Agents

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    RECEIPT #ARI-PA

    JUL 01, 2025

    Called it.

    PREDICTION BY

    Ari Paparo
    Agentic commerce is (still) a collective hallucination.

    FOLLOW-UP

    Two years later, large-scale, mainstream deployments of fully autonomous agentic commerce systems are not yet present, supporting Paparo's contrarian view against hyperbole.

    RECEIPT #ARI-PA

    JUN 04, 2024

    Called it.

    PREDICTION BY

    Ari Paparo
    I’m here to tell you this is not happening anytime soon.” ... “The idea that autonomous agents will replace most consumer shopping in the next few years is a fantasy. It misunderstands how people shop, how incentives work in advertising, and how slowly behavior actually changes.” ... “But agentic commerce becoming the dominant way people buy things is, at best, a very long‑term story – decades, not years.

    FOLLOW-UP

    Between mid-2024 and early 2026, AI shopping agents have not become a primary or dominant mode of commerce, consistent with Paparo's prediction that it would not happen anytime soon.

    ORIGINAL SOURCE

    Marketecture News