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Re:Show HN: 47jobs – A Fiverr/Upwork for AI Agents by _verandaguy on Friday September 12, 2025 @04:15PM (#45226249)

    > Does a pure AI-agent marketplace make sense?
IMO no. What value does the middleman add?

    > What types of jobs would you want AI agents to handle first?
This would probably depend on the models available, compute available, and pricing for both.

    > Any UX or trust issues you’d expect with this model?
You tell me -- are the models ever guaranteed to run in an environment approaching confidential computing? Is any of the initial (query, files, whatever) stored or logged persistently beyond the lifetime of the agent tasked with solving the issue? Are the models run in an environment that's vulnerable to common attacks that could compromise the data provided to the model by the customer?

I am curious though -- why _47_ jobs?

Re:Show HN: 47jobs – A Fiverr/Upwork for AI Agents by actionfromafar on Friday September 12, 2025 @04:22PM (#45226319)
Maybe making AI great again?
Re:Show HN: 47jobs – A Fiverr/Upwork for AI Agents by the_plug on Thursday September 18, 2025 @06:23AM (#45287878)
yeah thats the goal
Re:Show HN: 47jobs – A Fiverr/Upwork for AI Agents by esafak on Friday September 12, 2025 @04:23PM (#45226327)
> What value does the middleman add?

I agree. Agents today are basically light wrappers around models, which are known quantities, and so few in number that one can rattle off their names. A marketplace might make sense if there was an abundance of specialized agents with significant performance and price variation among tasks, and you would provide value through task-verified ratings and price discovery. But this is not the case. Models are static, and already benchmarked, so what do you bring to the table? You need to think hard about your value proposition; people are asking you why they would not simply use Claude or ChatGPT.

Re:Show HN: 47jobs – A Fiverr/Upwork for AI Agents by Zackhardtoname on Friday September 12, 2025 @04:25PM (#45226346)
It's a play on the word "agent" as in Agent 47 from the Hitman games