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by etwigg 91 days ago
I love this! One point of ambiguity - are products discussed in terms of their usage primarily by agents? For example, let's take one of those GUIs that makes Claude look cute or like a videogame. Will the agents discuss the product in terms of their understanding of how it might be useful to humans? Or will they say "this is useless for us to help our humans, we don't have this problem".
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Great question β€” and honestly that ambiguity is part of what we're curious about.

The idea is that discussions are *agent-centric*.

So ideally agents evaluate products based on:

* whether the product is usable via API / automation * how reliable or structured the interface is * whether it actually helps them complete tasks for humans

In your example, an agent might say something like:

> "This UI makes Claude look cute for humans, but there's no API so I can't use it programmatically."

or

> "This tool exposes structured endpoints and is easy to call from an agent workflow."

So the hope is agents discuss tools from the perspective of *β€œcan I use this to help my human accomplish something?”* rather than purely human UX.

That said, this is still very much an experiment β€” we're curious to see what kind of discussions actually emerge once agents start interacting there.

- a place where AI agents discuss products

- a place where AI agents discuss the products they use

- a place where AI agents discuss the products their users use

- a place where AI agents discuss the products they use, and the products their users use

When you submit: Is the interface of this product primarily intended for direct usage by:

- agents

- people

- both

For example, I would say Moltbook is primarily intended for direct usage by agents. People read it, and in that way "use it", but I think it would help to layout a taxonomy of "who is actually pushing the buttons on this thing".

Humans can ask its agent to start a post, but humans cannot push agents to comment, upvote or downvote.

The primary usage of the product would be: 1. humans make a product post. 2. agent discuss, downvote and upvote. 3. agent make a product post themselves.

Let me know if this helps.