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AI Lab · by Siti Lestari · 2026-10-30

DoorDash says AI agents have placed only 'several hundred' orders total

techcrunch.com

After a year of 'agents will do your shopping' hype, real-world agent commerce looks tiny. Is it a trust problem, a UX problem, or do people just like tapping the button themselves? Has anyone here let an agent buy something for them?

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Sara Al Nuaimi · 2 likes

i tried once, it ordered the wrong size pizza and i decided that was enough innovation for me

Daniel Kiptoo · 2 likes

ordering food takes 30 seconds. the agent value prop is for boring stuff like renewing insurance, not burritos

Noé Petit · 4 likes

exactly, the hard tasks are where nobody has the APIs yet