// Hacker Noon · 14 January 2026

The Idempotency Paradox: Designing Payment State Machines for AI Agents

Language models hallucinate; payment ledgers cannot. This article defines the 'Idempotency Paradox' in Agentic Commerce and introduces 'Semantic Idempotency'—a stateful architectural pattern to stop AI agents from accidentally draining user funds

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