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The Linguistic Shift Behind AI Agents in Commerce: Part 1
We spent twenty years teaching ourselves to talk like search engines—"running shoes men size 10" instead of actual sentences. Now AI agents understand natural language, and the entire payments infrastructure built for keyword search suddenly needs to learn conversational commerce.In Part 1, I explore:The shift from constrained syntax to natural discourseWhy context, pronouns, and semantic understanding replaced keyword matchingThe SEO to AEO transition (and what it means for product discovery)Why trust is a barrier after years of systems failing to understand usThis isn't about adding…
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