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LATEST VERDICT: MIXED — AI shopping checkout is real infrastructure, the 3–5 year adoption timeline is a forecast, not a fact

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Is Intent the Future of Commerce?

AI assistants are quietly shipping real checkout infrastructure — ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google are all doing it right now. The “businesses need to act in 3–5 years” framing floating around, though, is a forecast wearing the confidence of a fact.

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Mixed

Is Intent the Future of Commerce?

AI assistants are quietly shipping real checkout infrastructure — ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google are all doing it right now. The “businesses need to act in 3–5 years” framing floating around, though, is a forecast wearing the confidence of a fact.

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The task in the demo video is never the task that actually needs an agent. A pattern across six major launches.

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The AI Note-Taker That Actually Works

No asterisk. Tested across 30 real meetings against manual notes — this one earns the claim.

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The infrastructure is real. The reliability to let one run unsupervised on anything that matters isn’t, yet.

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AI Code Review Tools, Tested Against Real Pull Requests

Excellent at catching what a linter already would have. Quiet on the bugs that actually cost teams time.

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“AI-Powered” Is Doing a Lot of Work in That Product Name

A quick filter for telling a real model integration from a single API call with a new coat of paint.

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