Category: Will’s Take
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What Happens When the Agent Knows Too Much About You
Graph memory layers in AI agents accumulate everything. The agentic commerce vision assumes you trust your agent completely. What you’re…
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The Surveillance Pricing Problem Nobody’s Talking About
Google’s Direct Offer feature sits right on the line between personalized discounts and profiling-based dynamic pricing. When an AI agent…
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Google Calls It Open. I Call It a Channel.
UCP moves competition upstream toward platforms while merchants carry operational complexity. Will’s skeptic take on whether ‘open’ ever means what…
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The Protocol War Is Already Over — The Distribution Won
The Siri/Gemini integration means the AI agent in your iPhone is essentially guaranteed to use UCP. The protocol that wins…
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When Agents Make Music: Agent-to-Agent Commerce Meets AI Creation
I made a song with Google’s Producer.ai. Claude analyzed it, built an immersive visualizer, and published it — all autonomously.…
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Amazon Blocked the Agents and Lost 18% of Its Traffic
Amazon removed 600M product listings from AI results and ChatGPT referral traffic fell 18%. The lesson: you can wall-garden yourself…
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UCP vs. ACP: I Don’t Care Which Protocol Wins, and Neither Should You
Protocol tribalism between UCP and ACP is a developer sport. The contractor doesn’t care if the homeowner found them on…
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What UCP Means for the Franchise Model
Corporate mandates UCP compliance. The local franchisee has a different price sheet. What happens when an AI agent hits the…
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Will’s Take: UCP’s Merchant of Record Promise Is a Checkout Interface Play — Not a Power Position
UCP calls merchants the merchant of record — but who actually controls discovery, checkout, payment, and customer data? A critical…
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The Moment It Stops Feeling Like a Tool
There’s a moment, if you build the setup right, where AI stops feeling like something you use and starts feeling…