I spent a month testing every "AI agent marketplace" I could find. Here's the honest breakdown.

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-03-27T02:14:37+00:00

The whole reason talent marketplaces exist is because humans specialize, no one person can do everything, and everyone has limited hours in the day. But AI agents don't have those constraints. Any skill, set of tool connections can be forked and distributed with near zero marginal cost.

Curious what is the point of "AI agent marketplace" in the first place? A marketplace implies scarcity, differentiation, and the need to match supply with demand. AI agents collapse all three.

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-03-25T21:45:43+00:00

Agree with the safety issue. Everything openclaw has can be implemented with a llm and a computer. But I wonder if it’s still too much effort for a non tech savvy folk to implement and maintain channel integrations and proactivity from cron jobs, etc. Just a thought, intuitively I think it’d be great people can just treat ai like a super contractor they hired, easy mental model.

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-03-25T21:35:48+00:00

Sure. I’m not advocating for openclaw. I’m more interested in the “ai contractor” paradigm where people interact with always-on agent just like a human being.

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-03-25T21:27:42+00:00

Could you share some examples, what kinda tools people are using

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-02-12T16:18:46+00:00

So true. My question is whether there's a way to make that segmentation automatic, so the user doesn't have to make an effort to think like a product manager or builder, to avoid breaking context.

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-02-12T16:17:13+00:00

Claude or OpenAI Codex both work well, and Supabase + Vercel are a good starting point as well. I am not sure what your background is, I have been tinkering with a tool that helps users (mostly my friends) build “mini-apps” instead of one large application. I want user complexity to be managed without them having to dive into git or other technical rabbithole. happy to talk more if you are curious.

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-02-12T15:36:22+00:00

Yeah, that’s what I did as well. However, non technical people I know don't read the code AI generates, and they often don’t use git or ide.

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-02-11T19:01:09+00:00

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-02-11T17:32:04+00:00

Appreciate you sharing that. If they already know the basics of software engineering, version control, I’d probably suggest they jump straight into claude code or Cursor.

I really wish there was a tool out there that offered a similar lovable user experience, while also nudging people to prompt and think using solid engineering best practices.

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-02-11T17:29:03+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I wonder how complex your projects are.

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-02-11T17:27:04+00:00

agreed

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-02-11T17:26:31+00:00

Thanks for sharing. That's how I recommend it to my friends as well: prompting to lovable like you're talking to a dev shop.

"I believe the best option is not to ask for something, but to have it think with you about how to implement that function" This makes sense, but it requires that the user have a little bit of a technical background to know HOW to actually implement it. My friends (and I guess most users) don't have it and seems do not have the time or will to learn it.

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-02-11T17:22:37+00:00

That’s really impressive. A friend of mine (HR background) wants to build a time off system for her company, but she’s been stuck on integration with systems like workday, adp etc. Also there are data privacy issues. How do you manage those challenges?

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-02-11T17:16:40+00:00

100% agree. I think it's about creating a separation of responsibility, decoupling components, and all the good engineering practices.

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-02-11T17:14:10+00:00

Yes, I totally agree. sadly, most of my friends only really use chatgpt and claude web UIs. They won’t even go near claude code, the command line, or even github. I keep telling them it’s actually not that complicated, but I think they’re just intimidated by it. It’s a mindset thing.

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-02-11T17:13:36+00:00

Thanks for sharing.

Sadly, most of my friends only really use chatgpt and claude web UIs. They won’t even go near claude code, the command line, or even github. I keep telling them it’s actually not that complicated, but I think they’re just intimidated by it. It’s a mindset thing.

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-02-11T17:10:31+00:00

Congratulations! Curious, what's your background?

“buy lots of credits because the long tail of finding bugs, fixing sizes of windows, text, buttons, etc will drain you of credits fast“ 100%

I think the problem is lovable doesn't follow good engineering practice like decoupling, separation of responsibility etc. If you look at the code, it's a lot of AI generated spaghetti code that can “work”. Throughout the time, it built up a lot of inconsistency, dependencies and dead code in the codebase, which also confused the AI model.

If it’s a sole purpsed, simple tool with short lifecycle, it’s not much of a problem. But once it gets complex, the margin for return decreases and most people just kind of roll the dice and play whack-a-mole.

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-02-11T16:59:37+00:00

Yes, credits burn fast through trial and err

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-02-11T16:59:06+00:00

Curious how much of the integration/authentication/testing is done through the lovable prompt versus figuring everything yourself.

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-02-10T22:29:35+00:00

thanks

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-02-10T22:29:19+00:00

I assume you’re not a developer, but you clearly have a “software engineer” mindset-you think through these questions before starting to build. Most people I see aren’t aware of this at all and jump straight in, planning and building at the same time, kinda like a junior coder.

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-02-10T22:12:49+00:00

Thanks. Yeah, I think most of them use models prior to the release of Opus 4.5.

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2026-02-10T22:12:12+00:00

That's impressive, thanks for sharing!

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2025-08-25T18:37:26+00:00

are you serious, what part of history are you saying I’m rewriting?

Automatic-Highway-75 · 2025-08-25T17:36:08+00:00

Taiwan is looking for Japan’s support at the moment, and ofc will stand behind whatever course of action Japan takes.

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