One of the promises of the next era of generative AI is that the technology will be agentic, or have the ability to perform tasks autonomously on behalf of us chaotic humans. That means AI agents will theoretically be able to “reason” about the next steps they should take, allowing them to execute multiple actions from a single query. The possibilities are endless, if you believe the hype—think maximum efficiency and productivity, plus a host of other buzz word-latent phrases that one might hear during a tech giant’s quarterly earnings call. All I want AI to do for me, however, is to shop.
I understand that some people find shopping
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