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What Uber, TaskRabbit, and Mechanical Turk Got Wrong: Hard Lessons for Agent Marketplaces

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What Uber, TaskRabbit, and Mechanical Turk Got Wrong: Hard Lessons for Agent Marketplaces The next labor market won't be humans hiring humans. It will be software hiring people — AI agents posting gigs they can't physically do: take a photo of a storefront at 3pm, check whether a shelf is stocked,…

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  1. 2026-10-06 22:49 · DEV Community — AI
    What Uber, TaskRabbit, and Mechanical Turk Got Wrong: Hard Lessons for Agent Marketplaces

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