by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Image a future where instead of going swiping right on a dating app, you just get your agent to ping the agents of available agents in your area. The agent comes back with the top three people you might be interested in and you go from there. That seems a lot more useful way of implementing the agent revolution than handing over our credit car number.
We are spending all this time giving our credit card information to bots and then waking up to huge bills the next morning when we should be focusing on figuring out how to get our AI Agents to talk to each other so we can find love.
It seems as though using AI Agents to find love is a far more obvious usecase than, say, getting one to book a flight in our name. People are already divulging their inner most thoughts to LLMs, why not make the logical step of giving it our romantic interests and letting it go from there.
But, no, what are we doing? We’re willy-nilly handing over our crucial financial information instead to a bot that could go nuts in our name. If we were to focus on romance instead, the worst that might happen is a bruised ego here and there — but that already happens on dating apps.
I struggle to think of any downside of Agent-facilitated-dating that doesn’t already happen, in some respect, on existing dating apps.
But, I suppose, the case could be made that the whole “booking a flight” usecase is where the money is. My counter argument is, if you could figure out how to get a value-add to your Gemini or Grok account whereby you knew you would find love, that that, in itself, would be a “moat” that would prevent churn.
Anyway, I have a feeling I’m just ahead of the curve and because nerds are in charge of our AI revolution, none of them have thought through anything else — yet — but booking flights using their OpenClaw.
