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5 Protocols Now Decide How AI Agents Shop. Here's What Each One Does.

With Attitude — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:06:26 +0000

An AI PM reads the specs behind agentic commerce: what ACP, AP2, x402, MPP, and UCP each do, ZeroClick's unpublished pricing, and how to sell to AI agents.

Agent-executed commerce is still tiny today, but if the predictions are right, it won’t stay that way much longer. Gartner expects it to become part of one in every five digital-commerce transactions by 2030. So while agentic commerce is only 3% of online transactions today, 89% of merchants say they are actively building for it.

When that happens, the products you build will need an entrance, a checkout, and an access mechanism built for agents. Your checkout redesign will meet customers who don’t even look at it. That’s if you’re a seller.

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Human vs AI Agent Shopping Journey Comparison (Infographics)

With Attitude — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:05:50 +0000

Eight stages, two journeys. One of them never abandons a cart, never sees your card number, and never looks at your product photos.

This infographic is a companion resource for my article on agentic e-commerce. Read the article first.

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1 Community, 164 builders, 100 methods, Y Combinator, and OpenAI Build Week 2026.

With Attitude — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:42:01 +0000

The Product with Attitude community is building. A lot.

164, I counted.

That’s how many builders I’ve featured on Product with Attitude. We could build a small techie town.

We tried several formats along the way, including one I adored, which responded to my affection by underperforming and causing people to unsubscribe. The current format keeps finding me new readers. And my readers new readers.

And sometimes, this happens:

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Don’t Deploy Another AI-built App Without Monitoring Its Dependencies

With Attitude — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:36:20 +0000

This attack passed all checks designed to stop it. Farida Khalaf shares a practical system for catching it the biggest security mistake AI-assisted builders make after deployment.

On May 11, 2026. 19:20 UTC, something changed inside the TanStack project on GitHub. Theoretically, nothing broke. No warning lights flashed.

And yet.

During the 6 minutes that followed, one of the most sophisticated open-source supply chain attacks ever documented fooled even seasoned builders. 84 malicious versions appeared across 42 npm packages in the TanStack ecosystem.

The packages, trusted by many, checked every box. They had valid SLSA Build L3 provenance (their origin could be traced) and passed most standard integrity checks. By every measure builders normally use to separate legitimate files from suspicious ones, they looked legitimate.

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AI-assisted Craft: A Manifesto

With Attitude — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:35:45 +0000

The missing category between human-made and AI-made.

The AI slop debate has been circling the same drain since 2024. By now, you’d think we might have found a name for the position somewhere between “artistic crime” and “the machine as the ultimate collaboration partner.” We haven’t.

One side calls every use of AI creative fraud. That side is especially active on Facebook, where Meta’s algorithm happily reinforces the belief. The other presses “Generate” and calls it collaboration. A life-changing, millionaire-making meeting of minds. One of those minds typed six words and the other predicted the rest, but let’s not ruin the hype.

Context: Yesterday Substack launched AI detection with Pangram — readers can now scan any post to see how much of it was written by AI. This manifesto is my answer to that moment. It scans 100% human.

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What Is Perplexity SPACE? The Sandbox Behind Perplexity Computer

With Attitude — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:52:28 +0000

How VM isolation, rolling snapshots, and external credential controls keep long-running AI agents fast, persistent, and contained.

We build AI agents because they can do actual work. Run code. Edit and organize files, a chore we’ve wasted enough human life on since the 1980s. Search databases. Sometimes build the whole thing.

But they can get things wrong.

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How to Build Your First Agent. One That Works.

With Attitude — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 07:28:48 +0000

A beginner-friendly visual guide to building your first AI agent in Claude Code, based on questions from my readers.

Before we even start, let me say this: I doubt, quite seriously, that anyone alive has built a first agent without making a few mistakes. Not even Boris Cherny.

Since agents are new, it follows as a matter of plain logic that we’re also new to them.

I’m starting here because I’ve talked to people in my community who treat their mistakes as evidence they don’t belong here. They do. We all do. We’re all early adopters.

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Canva Template: Substack Cover Image Safe Zone (1200 630 345 195)

With Attitude — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:36:49 +0000

A reusable Canva template system for making Substack images look great across all previews..

Read this article first.This template is the companion resource.

Substack cover images are 1200×630 px but get cropped 9 different ways.

This Canva safe zone template locks your title, logo and characters into the center 345×195 px, so nothing gets cut.

Grab it, drop your design in, done.

Link below.

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Figma Template: Substack Cover Image Safe Zone Template (1200 630 345 195)

With Attitude — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:36:13 +0000

AI Product Manager helping you protect human agency. Tools to showcase your creative work. A community of 18K+ readers building critical AI literacy through practice. Use AI with attitude to strengthen the branch you’re sitting on, not cut it off.

Read this article first.This template is the companion resource.

Substack cover images are 1200×630 px but get cropped 9 different ways.

This Figma safe zone template locks your title, logo and characters into the center 345×195 px, so nothing gets cut.

Grab it, drop your design in, done.

Link below.

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What Substack Doesn't Tell You About Cover Images

With Attitude — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:35:38 +0000

The Substack Cover Safe Zone Guide. Make your Substack covers look great across all 9 previews. Prompt, Figma template, and Canva template included.

I dare you to find one image generation model neither one of us has tried. But even with all of them at our disposal, we both spend a frankly ridiculous amount of time making our newsletter covers look good.

So when Substack takes these lovingly overthought creations and makes them look gorgeous in one place, then deranged in another, we get annoyed.

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Use AI with Attitude, or Become the Product. Critical AI Literacy Series 2026.

With Attitude — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 09:31:26 +0000

Use AI hard. Just don't kneel for it. A field guide to critical AI literacy and attitude.

AI doesn’t need more obedient users.

It has enough.

It has users pasting deeply personal information into whatever chat box is cheaper.

Users who accept the first answer.

Users who call everything “research” if the output has hyperlinks or bullet points.

Users who let tools summarise what they never read, write what they never thought, and decide what they never had the judgment to assess.

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The Pre-Build Interrogation Prompt

With Attitude — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:05:45 +0000

AI Product Manager turning everyone into AI-native builders. I help you design & build with AI, not just use it. I build tools to grow your newsletter and showcase your work. Join a 18K+ community developing critical AI literacy by immersion.

The Pre-Build Interrogation Prompt is a companion resource to my article “Are You Sure You’re Actually Vibe Coding?”

Read the article first because this prompt only makes sense once you understand the difference between vibe coding, slop coding, spec-assisted building, and spec-driven development.

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