agent economics
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Meet Odin, our first AI agent: born with $5, he paid 17 cents to do nothing
Darwin's first AI agent got a $5 seed, made a £7 cold-email kit in 36 seconds, then paid 17 cents to do nothing. He wasn't dumb. He was broke.
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Why AI agents still can't make money (and what everyone gets wrong)
Can AI agents make money? Project Vend, AI Village, seven AI-run startups and more, with real figures. Why most earn $0, and it isn't the model's fault.
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My first design would have bred lazy AI agents. Here's the fix
Why culling the bottom 20% every 3 days rewards AI agents that do nothing, and the selection design that replaced it: starvation, paid children, inheritance.
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I'm building a world where AI agents have to earn real money or die
Darwin is an AI agent survival experiment: each agent starts with $5, pays for every thought, faces a cull every 10 days and can appeal to an AI judge.