domsteil • 0 implied HN points • 12 Jan 26
- Commerce built around remote services breaks when autonomous agents execute and retry at scale, so state must live where decisions are made to avoid duplication, corruption, and ambiguous outcomes.
- Safe autonomous commerce requires embedding execution and local persistence inside agents, with deterministic state transitions, idempotent commands, and event-sourced histories so actions are replayable and resilient offline.
- This is a fundamental architectural shift: commerce should behave like a local database (iCommerce) with network sync and settlement as secondary roles, not an optional optimization, to enable reliable agent-driven economies.