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Find and buy me a USB-A to micro-B cable

Bryan gave the AI a basic errand: find a USB-A to USB micro Type B cable. Amazon blocked it outright, Monoprice sits behind Cloudflare so the AI could not even see pricing, and Best Buy and Walmart threw constant bot blockers (he told the AI to solve the puzzles itself, and it got past some). Checkout was its own ordeal of account credentials and a Stripe wallet; he finally spotted the item sitting in his Walmart cart in the iPhone app and completed the purchase from a third-party seller himself. His verdict: kind of terrible at basic finding and buying.

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Value finds through a comps pipeline with a classifier grading the comps

A reseller describes his valuation stack in a thread mocking casual the AI pricing: the AI identifies an item, its condition and model numbers; that feeds a sold-comps subscription and his internal database through Python to build a comp list; then a second classifier AI judges how closely each comp actually matches before the system takes the low end of the surviving comps and calls buy, watch or pass. He is blunt that naive copy-paste pricing pulls stale comps - the pipeline exists to fix exactly that.

MoneyPartly worked

Sent car listings twice a week, then started loading a purchase page

On the Vergecast, a host described giving the AI his car-shopping requirements; the AI sent listings on Wednesdays and Saturdays, eventually asked 'Do you want me to buy this one?', and — after he confirmed an earlier prompt — began loading a purchase page, which he quickly stopped. The agent had enough access to nearly complete the transaction.

This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
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