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Animatsyesterday at 6:48 PM0 repliesview on HN

> I’ve said similar in another thread[1]

Me too, at [1].

We need fine-grained permissions at online services, especially ones that handle money. It's going to be tough. An agent which can buy stuff has to have some constraints on the buy side, because the agent itself can't be trusted. The human constraints don't work - they're not afraid of being fired and you can't prosecute them for theft.

In the B2B environment, it's a budgeting problem. People who can spend money have a budget, an approval limit, and a list of approved vendors. That can probably be made to work. In the consumer environment, few people have enough of a detailed budget, with spending categories, to make that work.

Next upcoming business area: marketing to LLMs to get them to buy stuff.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47132273