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Your AI agent can fill in a signup form. It can't read the verification email.

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Ask Claude, Cursor or Codex to sign up for something and it will happily fill in the form. Then it hits the wall every signup flow has: "We've sent you a code. Check your inbox." The agent has no inbox. So it stops, and asks you to go and copy a six-digit number out of your email. The one step that…

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  1. 2026-09-28 16:46 · DEV Community — AI
    Your AI agent can fill in a signup form. It can't read the verification email.

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