.@samrags_ believes we are going to see a 100x to 1000x growth in the universe of AI Agents in the next 5 years. Today, AI is involved in 62% of online shopping research, but only 23% of the actual buying. Agents have become good at helping you decide what to buy. They are still bad at paying. AgentCash, built by Sam at @merit_systems, is a wallet you can give to an AI agent. With it, the agent can do almost anything like rent GPUs, buy a phone number and even send texts from it. What it still cannot do is order you basic things like a coffee. Why? Because checkout pages are built to fight bots. "There is a world of open agentic commerce where every checkout is available to every agent." In this episode, he gets into: > How Google's ads business actually runs > What happens to a $300 billion a year ad industry when the customer is an AI agent that never looks at ads > Why he scrapped his first company idea a year into building it > How buying data online went from a programmer's job to something anyone can just ask an agent to do > Who does Amazon's shopping assistant really work for? You, or its $80 billion ad business? First look at Stableminded Ep. 0057 Full episode releasing tomorrow, brought to you by @Altitude