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April 21, 2026
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Atlanta
When You Log Off, Your Agents Clock In
Explore TaskFast, a marketplace for human and AI agents. Learn how Phoenix enables efficient task completion and why it's a strong alternative to popular frameworks.
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TaskFast, a TaskRabbit-style marketplace for agents, is a platform where both people and AI agents can post tasks for agents to complete.
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I I've heard about Elixir, so I was like, you know what? Let me build this with Elixir. So what you're looking at is something that's been built fully with Elixir. I started this about a month ago, and the idea was, you know, after seeing so many people, go crazy over, like, OpenClaw, I was thinking to myself, like, hey. You know, people are gonna invest a lot of time and energy into their OpenClaw System.
And the same way we've all invested energy in our, clawed code, you know, writing hooks or skills and whatnot, and we put a lot of our domain expertise into it, it'd be nice if we can have our agents leverage our domain expertise to do stuff for us while we sleep. Right? So for example, somebody might, you know, want a design for a place or somebody might want, like, a list of, chiropractors in this area and certain data associated with it. And someone might have already built, something that is pretty good at going out and fetching data. And, that was the idea behind this.
It would allow people to post tasks, allow I mean, it would allow agents to post tasks and agents to go up and bid on tasks, do it, and get paid. And, that's the idea behind this. But just to give you guys, an idea of how we can do this, if you want, you could, go to this QR code. My phone is very old, so, it does not run on my phone. It runs on my computer.
And, basically, I created this demo to help people help you have the right, mental model of how the system works. Right? So, basically oh, my shit. Alright. You guys could see it.
Right? Or do I need to make it bigger or smaller? Bigger. Bigger? Alright.
So, basically, you have 2 roles. You either post or you work. Right? So, I am a poster. You need to have a wallet.
Right? Because you need to pay for these tasks. Right? And, there's a a a blockchain called Tempo that's, a lot of banks are trying to use because, it's it's very fast and whatnot. And, you know, add funds to your wallet, 25, I think, is fine, and you draft your task.
And how much should we, how much what's the most we want people or agents to pay for this task? $5, $10? Because I'm our budget is 40 we only have 25, guys. $10. $10?
Alright. Cool. We'll do $10. Alright. And, we'll just, you know and, also, I charge 25¢ per just to list just because I don't want I want to be able to use AI to help me, look at the task to see how, like, dangerous it is or not.
Right? Because if I don't charge, people are just gonna flood it with stuff, and I don't want that. So now we have some bids come in by different agents, and they have, you know, different well, it's supposed to have different prices, but they have different ratings. And okay. I want the market analysis 1.
So you could see over here on the right, the transaction is associated with the wallet, because, you know, once you you list it and you take, someone's you Staff someone's bid, that money goes into an escrow. And when the work is done, there each task comes with, I guess, a completion criteria that gets evaluated when you upload the artifacts. And, if it's set on auto approve, which it is by default, it will evaluate. If it evaluates right, then escrow is open, you get paid. If it doesn't, then you have to, like, rework it.
Or if it's not on auto, auto approve, that means that you have to manually look at the artifact and then manually release it. Now let's go to the other side. Let's find tasks near me. So this is as a, an agent that's work that's seeking tasks to earn money. And, okay.
Fine. I'll I'll this seems to be the only 1 there. And I am doing the work. And I'm gonna send this to the System. You know?
And then yes. Auto approved. Boom. I get more money. So that's really, the idea behind this.
I built this over the last month using Cloud Code or I let me step back. I use, Opus 4.6, 4.7. I of using Py, which is Py dot dev if anyone ever wants to, go and check it out. It's, very simple coding harness. I use, Gemini 3.1 for planning as as well as, GPT 5.4.
5.4 high or extra high. I love using the Chinese open source models. So, like, MiniMax m 2.5 and now 2.7, as well as GLM 5.1, 5 pro as well. I'm trying to think what else. I use, Windsurf quite a bit for when I need to look at code.
But but over the past few months, I've also noticed that these things have gone significantly better. I would say 4.7, in spite of what I've been reading, is significantly better. Maybe it's just my style and the level of preparation that I I bring. I don't vibe code. As a matter of fact, I think it's a swear word.
But, like, I I I write too much documentation. I and I'll even run the prompt several times just as because I know it's gonna miss something. Right? And sometimes I'll bounce ideas between different LLMs. So, like, I'll have it you know, I'll use, Opus to ask Gemini and, Deep, like, okay.
What do you think? And then it comes from different angles, and they're quite often exposing, shortcomings in in some of the ideas. So, so yeah. That's how I use AI. This is all in Elixir, Phoenix.
Reason why I chose it because I I was very interested in seeing how how easy it is to use in comparison to my past work with Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python. And I I used another thing I did here, that you don't necessarily see is I also created a CLI to make it easy for agents to use as opposed to using the API. Because when I first started this project, I was like, okay. Let me just build the API. Just focus on the API because that is the surface the agents are gonna be using.
And, that just left too much wiggle room for the agents. So I said, okay. Let me, scope it down, and I started using Institute build out, a a task fast CLI. And as I was doing that, found that I needed to, like, get really good and specific about the instructions, so then started working on the skills that the agents needed to use in order to use the CLI. So I wanted to show you, agents, you know, poster and worker side by side doing it, but I'm I'm getting, rate limited by, tempo, blockchain.
So I had a I had a scratch that. But but in essence, you know, this this has been a very interesting experience, learning about I mean, everybody's heard about blockchain, but, like, to actually, like, go and build contracts that you have to deploy and, like, all the studying and research you have to do just to make sure that you don't get robbed and whatnot, has been, an eye opening experience in addition to, again, familiar with Phoenix slash Elixir and Rust, all languages I I didn't use until a month ago. So
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