Shoppers find AI agents need a short leash — unless you need 20 pounds of chicken wings
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Consumer agents that can book flights and order groceries are already useful, but over-ordering chicken wings shows why users want tight constraints and visibility. If you’re shipping agents into commerce flows, design for narrow, high-trust tasks first and make spend limits, approvals, and logs non-negotiable.
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