Ownware
Posted on Aug 30
AI-assisted
We sell small self-hosted business apps: plain PHP and MySQL, bought once, run on your own server. Recently a sale came with something we had not seen before, and we wanted to share what an agent-driven purchase looks like from the vendor's side. The order itself took eleven seconds. The evaluation that preceded it took two hours the day before, and part of it was not done by the buyer at all. It was done by a program acting on his behalf.
This is the account of that visit, taken from our own access log, with everything that could identify the buyer left out. We are writing it up because the pattern is going to be ordinary very soon, and because it changed four things about our site the same morning.
