🛒 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 - 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘃
written by Stefan Christoph
- 2 minutes read🛒 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 - 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 “𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻” 𝗯𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗻?
⏰ It’s hard to take a breath and find time to actually try and experience how well things are working in this fast-paced progress of all things Agentic AI.
🎯 Hence, I’m delighted to read the detailed deep dive by my colleague Thorben Sanktjohanser, who put all this into practice, collected data points, and shared everything with us - not only to read about his experience and results, but he also provided us the code to continue his experiments or easily adopt this for our own use.
📝 Some key quotes:
💬 “From Pop‑Ups to Product Misfires: The Real UX Cost of AI Shopping”
💬 “Screenshot-based shopping agents don’t fail because of AI — they fail because of the web.”
💬 “💡 It’s not about smarter agents — it’s about smarter environments. The future belongs to structured-data access and agent-friendly interfaces, not pixel-guessing bots.”
🔍 𝗠𝘆 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗔𝗫 (𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲) 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘀. 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄, 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁-𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁-𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗳𝘂𝗹!
🤔 Curious? Check out:
1️⃣ Thorben’s Blog post: https://sanktjoh.medium.com/the-hidden-complexity-of-screenshot-based-shopping-agents-a-300-run-reality-check-537dba0f3d39
2️⃣ The associated GitHub repository: https://github.com/knichwitz/nova-act-shopping
3️⃣ And last but not least - give him some love and appreciation on his own post - highly deserved! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tsanktjohanser_from-popups-to-product-misfires-the-real-activity-7384483661082980352-LVE2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAABg6ZcBGVwc7-h8BLeB6at0RlBIlWc_qBY
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