AI agents are pushing markets toward perfect efficiency—and it's going to wreck mediocrity.

Three real examples:

1. Spent hours researching white leather shoes that don't fade. Found Crown Northampton. They lasted. Manual work, but I got what I paid for.

2. Years of sinus hell. Doctor wanted a 2nd surgery. ChatGPT helped me skip it—saw a neurologist for migraines instead. Problem solved. No surgery.

3. Wanted to long $AMZN for my open-source AI thesis. My Hermes agent built an options strategy that crushed just buying stock.

The pattern? AI gives everyone near-perfect information. No more information asymmetry. No more overpaying for garbage.

What this means:

Bad products die fast. Overpriced services get competed to zero. Complex trades (like options) are now accessible to anyone—not just hedge funds. If billions can express long/short views via agents, pricing gets ruthlessly efficient. Add 24/7 trading on Hyperliquid and it's game over for inefficiency.

Historically you had to go to ChatGPT or Claude. Now billions have Hermes, Muse, Instinct—real-time reasoning at their fingertips.

The fallout:

Companies with fat margins on subpar offerings? Dead.

Companies delivering real value? Bid to the moon.

Value flows back to consumers. Capital flows to the best. Hyper-concentration is coming.

Efficient markets don't care about your brand. They care about your edge. And agents just gave everyone the same edge.