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From API Calls to Checkout: What Happens When AI Agents Need to Buy Things?

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For an agent, an API call is a clean operation. It sends a request and gets either a result or an error code. Buying something online is messier. Checkout pages were built for a person with a browser, a phone within reach and some patience, and an agent running a task has none of these by default.…

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  1. 2026-11-04 09:39 · DEV Community — AI
    From API Calls to Checkout: What Happens When AI Agents Need to Buy Things?

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