The agent economy: someone else's agent will be lying to yours about the price
generativist · x · 2026-09-24
benhylak uses Facebook Marketplace as an easy example of the coming agent economy: your agent will be buying while someone else's agent is selling — and that seller agent will want to lie to yours about minimum price and how badly it needs to sell. Negotiation and trust between agents becomes the new problem space. generativist quips that Zuck booting up "Economics 2.0" is a funny twist.
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