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Rafael Lopes · Founder & Principal AI Engineer · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Brazilian) · member of Cloud Native Computing Foundation — Vancouver.
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2 postsThe Death of the Product Page: Why Agent-Mediated Commerce Needs Structured Endpoints, Not HTML
The Decision Agent-mediated commerce is here in pilot form — Google's Universal Commerce Protocol, OpenAI's instant checkout, AP2, and WebMCP all assume agents...
Image Optimization vs Alt Text: What AI Agents Actually Read on Your Page
The Decision Half the web's bytes are images [Source 2], but the agents now hitting your pages — Claude, ChatGPT, agentic shoppers, coding assistants — consume...