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I love the idea. Skeptical it will succeed but would be glad to be wrong. My most recent experiment cost $8/hr to run and it still needed a lot of handholding t
by breckenedge 1y ago
I love the idea. Skeptical it will succeed but would be glad to be wrong. My most recent experiment cost $8/hr to run and it still needed a lot of handholding to produce anything useful. And anything that could be automated by AI that would earn money has probably already been automated long before LLMs came along.
- spenceXu 1y agoTotally hear you. $8/hr is steep, and I’ve hit that wall too. My hypothesis is that we might find weird edge-cases — small arbitrage tasks, emotional labor, creative content, or even hustling donations — where the agent survives not by being efficient, but by being novel. It might not scale. But if one survives for 3 days doing random TikTok reposts or selling AI-generated stock photos, I’d consider that a win. Also, part of the fun is just watching how it tries. Even if it fails, the failure modes could be insightful (or hilarious).
- pajamasam 1y agoI'm interested in hearing what your experiment was that cost $8/hr. Do AI-agents generally cost about that much per hour? I haven't experimented with running them yet.
- breckenedge 1y agoThat was the cost of running Claude Code for an agent-building-agents experiment I ran.