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Re: Claude for Commerce Agents

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Post by shmoogy »

Gecko4072 wrote: post #9

>Retailers running shopping agents on Claude have seen carts up to 35% larger and shoppers 60% more likely to complete a purchase. I feel like this is a messed up thing to brag about. From dark patterns now to whatever this is. Like a dark nudge from something that can appear intelligent, acting as a person, with the goal of selling more and more.

The flip side is that it helps people find items they want, leading to less friction and buying more. Not that I trust it to be to the benefit of the consumer by default, but we've definitely seen better conversion and AOV increases after moving from straight lexical search to hybrid vector.

Re: Claude for Commerce Agents

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Post by andai »

peri-cl wrote: post #12

I don't want this. I want the diametric opposite of this: I want stores that expose their entire real-time catalog as RAG endpoints and let my agents go bonanza on them. My agents; agents whose loyalties are to me. I'd enthusiastically pay a large premium for this, if any hungry startup people are looking for ideas. I'm not interested in using agents controlled by vendors. Our interests are adverse! Even plain text s…

Agree, but we may be a minority of shoppers ;)

Re: Claude for Commerce Agents

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Post by andai »

Gecko4072 wrote: post #9

>Retailers running shopping agents on Claude have seen carts up to 35% larger and shoppers 60% more likely to complete a purchase. I feel like this is a messed up thing to brag about. From dark patterns now to whatever this is. Like a dark nudge from something that can appear intelligent, acting as a person, with the goal of selling more and more.

Special price for you, my friend!

Re: Claude for Commerce Agents

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Post by dayvid »

hmokiguess wrote: post #10

Who is still using Anthropic seriously, their price and limits are ridiculous these days, you can't get anything done unless you're paying top dollar on a metered pricing at ridiculous levels. Subscriptions only get you frustrated, and any agentic pipeline that needs to make a profit, that has actual margins, I seriously doubt is using any of their models.

Large businesses who choose enterprise solutions over cheaper indie/open-source solutions for similar reasons (dedicated support, sticky products designed for their industry, less regulatory concerns, etc.)

Re: Claude for Commerce Agents

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Post by klps10 »

Ok Shopify, you called the demons, now Anthropic makes you obsolete!

You know, maybe merchants now have to "justify to the bank why they are using Shopify instead of Anthropic" just like your software engineers have to "justify not using AI".

A new AI purity spiral is emerging that devours one by one.

Re: Claude for Commerce Agents

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Post by dgellow »

gruez wrote: post #17
peri-cl wrote: post #12

I don't want this. I want the diametric opposite of this: I want stores that expose their entire real-time catalog as RAG endpoints and let my agents go bonanza on them. My agents; agents whose loyalties are to me. I'd enthusiastically pay a large premium for this, if any hungry startup people are looking for ideas. I'm not interested in using agents controlled by vendors. Our interests are adverse! Even plain text s…

>I'd enthusiastically pay a large premium for this, if any hungry startup people are looking for ideas. Dropshipping as a "make $10k/week and be your own boss" idea is back?

You now have full courses on how to clone high quality YouTube edutainment channels using genAI. Some of the clone channels have millions of views. exactly like drop shipping scams, you have discord channels and online course (with hidden fees of course!) telling you what to do, the whole pitch is “you’re uncreative and want to make quick money passively without effort? Here is how to do it”.

Fern, a popular human made channel published this yesterday: https://youtu.be/-Gnrp_caPvo?si=H9V6Pa3rwJr5UzeW

Re: Claude for Commerce Agents

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Post by hmokiguess »

dayvid wrote: post #24
hmokiguess wrote: post #10

Who is still using Anthropic seriously, their price and limits are ridiculous these days, you can't get anything done unless you're paying top dollar on a metered pricing at ridiculous levels. Subscriptions only get you frustrated, and any agentic pipeline that needs to make a profit, that has actual margins, I seriously doubt is using any of their models.

Large businesses who choose enterprise solutions over cheaper indie/open-source solutions for similar reasons (dedicated support, sticky products designed for their industry, less regulatory concerns, etc.)

Do they not measure returns on their investments? It's not like Anthropic is the only enterprise out there, any other offering is significantly cheaper. Like I said, I do not believe there are agentic pipelines out there built on their flagship models, if there are then they are eating the costs and not profitable or they have found some serious market that makes no sense to me.

Re: Claude for Commerce Agents

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Post by WarmWash »

hmokiguess wrote: post #10

Who is still using Anthropic seriously, their price and limits are ridiculous these days, you can't get anything done unless you're paying top dollar on a metered pricing at ridiculous levels. Subscriptions only get you frustrated, and any agentic pipeline that needs to make a profit, that has actual margins, I seriously doubt is using any of their models.

>Who is still using Anthropic seriously

Too many people, hence all the friction and cost.

It's pretty clear that there is massive unmet demand for AI, and compute cannot keep up. So you can pretty reliably dial in the "free compute for inference" situation for any given lab based on their pricing and friction tactics.

Anthropic/Google getting stuffed (Google is an odd case here)

OAI doing alrightish

Grok/Meta basically doing giveaways

Chinese models trying to fill vacancies on 3rd party compute

Re: Claude for Commerce Agents

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Post by xena »

dgellow wrote: post #26
gruez wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I'd enthusiastically pay a large premium for this, if any hungry startup people are looking for ideas. Dropshipping as a "make $10k/week and be your own boss" idea is back?

You now have full courses on how to clone high quality YouTube edutainment channels using genAI. Some of the clone channels have millions of views. exactly like drop shipping scams, you have discord channels and online course (with hidden fees of course!) telling you what to do, the whole pitch is “you’re uncreative and want to make quick money passively without effort? Here is how to do it”. Fern, a popular human ma…

Ironically, the fact that those methods are being sold as classes is because they are used up and not as effective anymore.
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