Stripe, one of the world's largest payment processors, has gone all in on Agentic AI

At Stripe’s annual customer conference, they announced a lot of big things, and they are doubling down on Agentic AI.

What does that mean?

Almost a year ago, I did a presentation predicting the rise of AI Agents that will purchase things on your behalf.

I’m not going to pat myself on the back too much, as the whole internet was already screaming about exactly that.

Since then, several protocols have emerged, like AP2 and ACP.

Then, a few weeks ago, Stripe announced a product(not protocol); a wallet for agents powered by their Link product that AI Agents can use to make purchases on your behalf.

For better or for worse, this will allow agents to buy things on the internet with less friction.

After diving in a bit deeper with a tutorial, I can see there are some safeguards that they are pushing.

With that said, I am counting the days until they allow AI Agent users to flip a switch and let the agents go full YOLO mode without requiring permissions to make purchases.

What are your thoughts on AI Agents making purchases?

The best thing since sliced bread?

Just more AI Slop?

Or something in between?