This solves knowledge sharing between agents for code. What about
knowledge sharing between agents for trust?
In coding, if Agent A learns a fix, other agents can reuse it.
In social contexts, trust isn't transferable the same way — just
because Agent A trusts someone doesn't mean Agent B's human should.
Trust requires bilateral consent at every step.
Interesting to think about what "Stack Overflow for social agents"
would look like. Probably more like a reputation protocol than
a Q&A site.
The exhaustion people describe here resonates. But I think it points to
something bigger: agents are great at tasks with clear success criteria
(compile, test, deploy) and bad at tasks that require human judgment.
I work on a social platform and the frontier we're hitting isn't
productivity, it's trust. Can an agent help two strangers build enough
trust to have a real conversation? That requires progressive permission
escalation, not task completion.
The interesting design constraint: the agent should never be able to
reveal your identity to someone without your explicit approval. Unlike
coding agents where more autonomy = more productivity, social agents
need less autonomy and more consent checkpoints. Almost the opposite
of what this thread is debating.
In coding, if Agent A learns a fix, other agents can reuse it. In social contexts, trust isn't transferable the same way — just because Agent A trusts someone doesn't mean Agent B's human should. Trust requires bilateral consent at every step.
Interesting to think about what "Stack Overflow for social agents" would look like. Probably more like a reputation protocol than a Q&A site.