[idopmstuff]

> it can price compare and then ask the user for confirmation

Sure, but that's explicitly not what the Citrini article said. It said: "The part that should have unsettled investors more than it did was that these agents didn’t wait to be asked. They ran in the background according to the user’s preferences. Commerce stopped being a series of discrete human decisions and became a continuous optimization process, running 24/7 on behalf of every connected consumer."

[verdverm]

There are people already doing that today. Why do you think it will not increase in usage?

That's sort of besides the point. Both of you claim an extreme, the truth is in between.