Issue #16: Agentic Commerce Goes B2B — Amazon Shopping Agent, Perplexity 87% Time Savings, Ladybird Kills PRs

Issue #16 of The Agentic Engineer Podcast. Amazon licenses its agentic shopping assistant to outside retailers — Kate Spade first, 60-day deploy, $12B internal revenue drove the decision. Perplexity publishes production data showing autonomous agents cut knowledge work time 87% and expand scope of what users attempt. DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision. Claude Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 land on AWS Bedrock. AWS MCP Server gets cross-account support. Bedrock Mantle Console redesigns the developer experience. And Ladybird kills public PRs because AI-generated contributions broke the effort-equals-good-faith assumption.