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> Email is an optimal interface for long-running agents. Long-running agents are themselves not optimal though. There are a ton of these coordination layers for long running agents now but they don't make any sense under other paradigms
How do you think this will help with identity verification in the future?
How do you think this will help with identity verification in the future?
It lets agents plug into the same trust systems the web already uses! And this opens the door to new ways agents can do work and build credibility on the internet.
"Application error: a client-side exception has occurred while loading www.agentmail.to (see the browser console for more information)." > Looks at developer console... - "Failed to create WebGL context: WebGL is currently disabled." Dafuq does an email website need WebGL for? - "Cookie “dmn_chk_xxxxxxxx-yyyy-dead-beef-123456789ABC” has been rejected for invalid domain." Let me guess...vibe-coded?
Love getting downvoted for mentioning that the website doesn't properly load and reeks of vibe coding :D If that's the quality y'all can live with and accept, no wonder the web turned to shit.
How does this differentiate from a solution like AWS SES? (Which I assume AI Agents would be quite adept at using to send email) I understand the differentiator vs GMail, but API-based scripted email access isn’t new.
Because we built the same inbox infrastructure as Gmail. Inboxes have threads, threads have messages, messages have attachments. You can search, label, filter, reply, forward. None of this comes out of the box with SES.
> Agents that source quotes, negotiate prices, and get the best deals. Didn't Alexa fail miserably with the "have AI buy something for me" theory? There is a significant mental in allowing someone else make purchase decisions on my behalf: - With a human, there is accountability. - With deterministic software, there is reproducibility. With an agent, you get neither. FWIW - I am not anti-LLM. I work with them and bui…
This refers to B2B use cases that are live in production. Finding, contacting, and negotiating with vendors is a tedious process in many industries. In the time a human reaches out to 10 vendors, an agent reaches out to 100 or 1000. So it finds deals that a human would not have.
Are logistics companies really that poor so they cannot afford to pay workers wages?
> Agents that source quotes, negotiate prices, and get the best deals. Didn't Alexa fail miserably with the "have AI buy something for me" theory? There is a significant mental in allowing someone else make purchase decisions on my behalf: - With a human, there is accountability. - With deterministic software, there is reproducibility. With an agent, you get neither. FWIW - I am not anti-LLM. I work with them and bui…
We are using AgentMail for sourcing quotes here at scale with various top shippers. It’s not about letting the agent act in fully deterministic ways, it’s about setting up the right guardrails. The agents can now do most of the job, but when there’s low confidence on their output, we have human in the loop systems to act fast. At least in competitive industries like logistics, if you don’t leverage these types of wor…
Do you see more pushback in specific industries? I did some quote/purchasing automation work in food mfg a decade ago, and those guys were super difficult to work with. Very opaque, guarded, old-school industry.
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Nice seems like we are building towards a similar vision. Would love to collaborate!
Sure, bud. Cut me in on your 500K! My Show from 14 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629191 - hmm, why didn't it get into YC?
Google has A2A: An Agent-to-Agent Protocol. SaaS is plumetting in value.
Arbitrary semantics made sense when communications were human-dominated.
If agents dominate these fields, why wouldn't they simply set their own protocols and methods to communicate both text, binary, and agreed data structures?
There's an assumption that email is somehow the best channel, when you've found yourself that the most popular, functional interfaces don't align with your expectations.
Then, ultimately I have a single agent that can sit in numerous communication platforms, such as email