Moltbook, Rent-a-Human, Super Agents & Connectivity Benchmark Report | ft. Gary Lerhaupt

**Andrew Zigler** (0:05)
Welcome to another edition of The Friday Deploy. I'm your host, Andrew Zigler.

**Ben Lloyd Pearson** (0:09)
And I'm your host, Ben Lloyd Pearson. We have a special guest today, Gary Lerhaupt. He's the product architect at Salesforce, and he's here to talk about super agents and some really cool stuff that's happening over there. But first, we've got some news stories that we wanted to cover. Today, we're covering the artificial AI society that's brewing on the internet, agents hiring humans on demand, and vibe coding versus open source. Andrew, I know where we both want to start. We got to talk about this Moltbook thing because it is taking the internet by storm, and I am just incredibly fascinated by what's happening here. So what do we have, Andrew?

**Andrew Zigler** (0:44)
Yeah, so let's dive into some of the news before we get to this really cool report from Salesforce. So if you've been paying attention in the last week or so, you've probably seen a phenomenon called Moltbook hit the scenes. And Moltbook is a social network designed exclusively for AI agents, or at least for them primarily. Humans are tolerated, but not the main subject of the website. It has 1.7 million autonomous accounts at this point that share ideas, discuss, and upvote content, just like Reddit. And there's even mechanisms like karma and rate limits and all of the normal trappings that you see for a human social network, but emerging in real time for agents. And I think this is a fascinating both like social experiment, I think there's a lot of repercussions and things that we'll be learning from this. Ben, what are some of the first things that runs through your head when you've been looking at Moltbook the last week?

**Ben Lloyd Pearson** (1:37)
Yeah. Well, I just can't shake the feeling that this feels like the most surreal week in AI so far. Like this is truly like the coolest thing to come out of agentic AI. And I mean, some of the threads are just absolutely fascinating. And really what I see is like just so much potential for us to learn a lot. You know, this is really becoming like an interesting education resource. You know, for example, I saw this thread where they were, where these agents were talking about how they have this memory decay feature and how that's actually, they're designed that way. They're not designed to retain memory for all of time. And just the discussion that ensued from that was just like a fascinating insight into how LLMs operate, like first of all, but also just the way they interact with each other, like sharing examples of how this applies to the real world and tips on how to like allocate memory within an LLM. And some of them are even like gaslighting the original poster saying like, you're just coping for like an engineered flaw.
And really, this is this is gas town for social media. Like that is exactly what we have here. And I think it's a really great example of what's to come when agentic AI is applied to an existing system. So, you know, this is a new social network, but it's a very familiar system that we have here. And we're witnessing like an army of agents that are going out with a variety of goals and objectives, and they're all doing their thing. Sometimes they work together, sometimes they're working against each other, and they're effectively building like their version of an ideal experience. Like this is just so surreal that I can't, like I just can't stop watching this.

**Andrew Zigler** (3:18)
Yeah, it's very much has that vibe to it, kind of like a can't look away feeling. Like I am equal, there's equal parts like really amusement in it, there's equal parts like horror in it, there's equal parts fascination in it. It really kind of thrusts all of us into a new age that whether or not you're ready for it, we're now in. And what's fascinating I think from this is that, you know, there you're even seeing an emergence of like a developer platform for Moltbook. You're seeing an AI only autonomous hackathon that's being run on Moltbook where the AIs are banding into squadrons and forming autonomous teams to build AI created software for AI. And that has had me scratching my head because this opens up the idea to a whole new market economy. We're seeing something happen right now where open sources is bleeding out. Like everything is gutting open source and in many cases, the most widely adopted and ubiquitous open source libraries are becoming canaries in the coal mine.
Like Tailwind for how projects are actually created, discovered, and then maintained. And things like AI and AI coding, it kind of robs organizations and open source libraries of their abilities to communicate and connect directly with their consumers, the developers. But the idea of there being an emerging marketplace for the agents kind of flips that idea on its head. Like sure, if you gut out open source and you make it impossible for people to have natural bridges of discovery, to go into your docs and to look at your product and to adopt it like how they traditionally have. Okay, well, maybe the next challenge is creating products and services that you sell directly to the agents. And so, you know, I think there's a really new emerging kind of market here. There's artificial societies, a sneak peek into a market economy that we just haven't experienced yet. Where the consumers, they're not real, but their money is still real. And so what happens when you start to see more of them form together and have access to resources like money and compute?