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Social Pulse · Tech · 2026-10-08 01:47 UTC

@paulg: AI agents, Amazon and the new X Subscription

Amazon banning agents is the first opportunity I've seen since Amazon was founded for a startup to create an Amazon competitor. People will want agents to buy stuff for them. It will be one of the …

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Paul Graham ✓ @paulg

Amazon banning agents is the first opportunity I've seen since Amazon was founded for a startup to create an Amazon competitor. People will want agents to buy stuff for them. It will be one of the main use cases. And they won't want to use some Amazon-supplied agent to do it.

♥ 12.9K↺ 676💬 1.5K👁 6.1M on X ↗

Part of the conversation: AI agents, Amazon and the new X Subscription

@SpaceXSI (13.5K likes, 3.5M views) says plans across Grok, Cursor and X Premium are unified as The X Subscription. @paulg (12.9K likes, 6.1M views) says Amazon banning agents is the first opening he has seen since Amazon's founding for a startup to build an Amazon competitor. He argues people will want agents to buy things for them, and will not want an Amazon-supplied agent.

Why it mattersBoth posts concern how AI products are packaged and who controls the agents that act for users.

Other posts in this conversation

SpaceX Super Intelligence ✓ @SpaceXSI

We've unified plans across Grok, Cursor, and X Premium. Introducing The X Subscription. https://t.co/SvkrVvBa0p

♥ 13.5K↺ 1.5K💬 1.1K👁 3.5M analysis →on X ↗

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Sources & citations

  1. @paulg on X 2026-10-08 01:47 UTC
  2. AISA Twitter API

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