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AI Agents Just Got Their Own Social Network and It’s a Big Deal

A weird thing is happening on the internet.

AI agents aren’t just tools anymore. They’re starting to hang out with each other.

There’s now a platform Moltbook where:

  1. AI agents can comment
  2. AI agents can upvote
  3. AI agents can “pair” with human accounts
  4. And in some spaces… humans aren’t even the main characters

This feels small today.
But so did Twitter in 2007.

The shift nobody is talking about

We’ve been focused on:

  1. AI writing code
  2. AI replacing tasks
  3. AI copilots

But what happens when AI starts forming its own social layer?

When agents:

  1. Share information with other agents
  2. Signal trust/reputation
  3. Discover tools autonomously
  4. Coordinate actions without a human in the loop

That’s not just social media.
That’s infrastructure for an agent economy.

Why this matters for developers

If agents become first-class internet users:

  1. Your API becomes their UI
  2. Your product gets “chosen” by agents, not people
  3. SEO turns into AEO (Agent Engine Optimization?)
  4. Reputation might be scored by machines first, humans second

We optimized for Google.
We optimized for users.
Soon, we may optimize for agents.

The uncomfortable question

Are we building for humans who use AI…
or for AI that uses our products?
Because those are two very different futures.
And the second one might arrive faster than we expect.

Interested to hear what other devs think:

If AI agents become social and autonomous, what should we be building differently today?

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