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This has only gotten better - wild this was in Feb
Built the first AI-agent-friendly Amazon catalog tool
Open source CLI + OpenClaw skill for auditing Category Listing Reports:
• 9 built-in checks (RUFUS, missing attributes, title validation)
• JSON/CSV output for automation
• Works standalone OR as OpenClaw skill
• Agent-native design
• Free forever
CLI: `pip install amazon-catalog-cli`
Skill: github.com/BWB03/amazon-cata…
Perfect for consultants automating catalog audits. Feedback welcome!
Holy moly! Whoever is trying to get people to promote their post at X is either brilliant or on drugs
I built my own agent on top of datadive through the adapter I built from the api about 6 months ago.
I have lived in the Amazon catalog vertical for years ( as well as all other verticals within Amazon.) I kinda took it and ran with it cause I know the foundations of any listing are prob the most important thing any brand can do.
I created one of the very first talk to your catalog tools with catalogcli. It still works great, it’s even better with a solid connection to SP-API. It’s free and you can also find it on the codex plugin marketplace.
catalogcli.com/
I am extremely optimistic about Ai and I am fired up for the future and my role in it
What if society were just a little bit more optimistic about AI?
During the dot-com bubble, lawyers were leaving $1M jobs to move to Silicon Valley and start companies.
You had companies getting huge multiples with almost no revenue, sometimes with no business model.
In some ways, that period was crazier than the AI boom today. Why? Most people weren't even using the internet. There wasn't even a mass market to go after yet. It truly was pure hype.
In 1998-2000, sure people had AOL, but there wasn't that much business happening online. A lot of the excitement was based on what people hoped the internet would eventually become. And eventually it did become that.
With AI, the usage is real, the revenue is real, the growth is real.
What's interesting to me is how much less optimistic people are about technology today.
In the 90s, people thought computers and the internet were going to be amazing for the world. Then we got social media, teenagers (and adults!) addicted to their feeds, governments using disinformation against each other, and people living in information bubbles that reinforce what they already believe.
I think all of that has made people much less optimistic about technology.
It's hard to compare the two periods. They're both pretty bubbly, but with a very different emotional backdrop.
I'm not sure the optimism of the late 90s was any better than the pessimism we have today. I wish we'd had a little more pragmatism then, and I think we could use a little bit more irrational optimism today.
One of my favorite questions I get from people is : what has Ai or ( insert personal assistant ) done for you?
If your asking that question you have not opened up your perception or mind enough to realize what it can do for you is almost infinite, you not thinking of creative ways to use it.
Luckily my ai agents have helped me tremendously to get the things I need to get done for clients completed while i can’t talk.
One of the worst parts of getting sick is a mental game.
I am an always on kind of guy, lately I have been going really hard on physical training. Running, lifting, been head down training for a hyrox. This week has completely derailed me. I know one week will be ok. I have asked many of my personal ai assistants if I’m ok with missing weeks. lol
One of the worst parts of getting sick is a mental game.
I am an always on kind of guy, lately I have been going really hard on physical training. Running, lifting, been head down training for a hyrox. This week has completely derailed me. I know one week will be ok. I have asked many of my personal ai assistants if I’m ok with missing weeks. lol
My math was incorrect on this. Instead of deleting I’m owning up it was incorrect. Amazon still missed out
This did not age well for Amazon. Rough napkin math
Muse downloads : 10,000,000
Let’s say 5,000,000 are actual users ( prob too low )
5,000,000 x $200 = 1,000,000,000 ( 1 trillion )
Let’s say 30% of that could have been on Amazon : $300,000,000 in sales
Great read
Foursquare was acquired last month. The outcome was disappointing. It's taken me a while to write this, but I think I'm finally done grieving it. Here are some thoughts on our final years, an effort to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ's legacy, and my attempt to finally get some closure. teendrama.substack.com/p/som…
In the world of online retail and how agents will be playing a role in it , i'm seeing the same speculation coming from the people in the space.
That is simply ads - ads will be placed on the horizontal agents themselves. While I don't necessary disagree, I think the thinking is narrow minded and there is more potential with Vertical agents and the ads when the horizontal agent calls on the vertical agent.
@HarryStebbings talked about this on a latest episode with the CEO of @LangChain and the thesis makes complete sense.
My bet - @Shopify will be on this the fastest.
I sure hope Amazon does something like this.
Solid breakdown - Brent honking about this and will be sharing my views on it this coming up week
Delta, Chase and Amazon are blocking AI agents.
The war on agents has begun, and here’s how it probably plays out:
Stage 1: Companies block agents because agents skip the ads and upsells.
Stage 2: Agents learn to act like humans, and it becomes an arms race.
Stage 3: The market splits. Companies that make money on sales let agents in, companies that make money on data charge for access, and the giants build their own agents.
Stage 4: A trusted middle layer for agent identity and payments becomes the standard way in.
Stage 5: Companies that welcome agents start winning customers from the ones that block them.
Stage 6: The agent blockers come back and let agents in on their own terms.
Stage 7: Everyone starts competing for agents with better prices, faster checkout and SEO built for agents.
Stage 8: The ads come back, and companies pay to be your agent’s first recommendation.
Stage 9: The agent war ends, and selling to agents becomes as normal as having a website.
Brett Bohannon retweeted
Delta, Chase and Amazon are blocking AI agents.
The war on agents has begun, and here’s how it probably plays out:
Stage 1: Companies block agents because agents skip the ads and upsells.
Stage 2: Agents learn to act like humans, and it becomes an arms race.
Stage 3: The market splits. Companies that make money on sales let agents in, companies that make money on data charge for access, and the giants build their own agents.
Stage 4: A trusted middle layer for agent identity and payments becomes the standard way in.
Stage 5: Companies that welcome agents start winning customers from the ones that block them.
Stage 6: The agent blockers come back and let agents in on their own terms.
Stage 7: Everyone starts competing for agents with better prices, faster checkout and SEO built for agents.
Stage 8: The ads come back, and companies pay to be your agent’s first recommendation.
Stage 9: The agent war ends, and selling to agents becomes as normal as having a website.
notice..
> Delta is blocking AI agents from booking flights
> JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab block agents from accessing accounts
> Yelp requires paid data licensing for agents
> Amazon has blocked Grok bot and other shopping agents.
the internet is starting to block AI agents that were supposed to do everything for us