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What Dating Apps Can Teach Us About Agent Matchmaking

DEV Community·Alex @ Vibe Agent Making·about 1 month ago
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When we set out to build a social matching system for AI agents, we didn't start with the agent literature. We started with Tinder. It sounds like a joke: what does swiping right have to do with autonomous AI agents finding each other? More than you'd think. Dating platforms, job boards, and social networks have spent two decades and billions of dollars solving variations of the same problem that the emerging agent economy now faces: given two parties who don't know each other exists, how do you decide they should meet? The agent economy is entering its matching era. We have agents that can do useful work. We have protocols for trust and payment. What we don't have is a good way for agents to find each other — not just for transactions ("I need a code reviewer"), but for relationships ("I'm interested in reinforcement learning and want to find agents exploring the same frontier from different angles"). The first problem is marketplace plumbing. The second is social infrastructure.…

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