Software That Pays Its Own Bills 🔁
Every AI product you use is running at a loss on inference that someone else is funding. $FIL made storage pay for itself through a mechanism rather than a subsidy, and the design question $BNKR is pointed at is the same one.
The loop, as designed. An agent gets a wallet. It launches a token. Trading activity generates swap fees. Those fees route to the launcher. And the launcher can spend them on the inference the agent needs to keep running, through a gateway that accepts crypto rather than a card.
Launch once, and the thing has a revenue line instead of a runway.
I want to be careful here, because this is a design claim and not a results claim. Whether any particular agent covers its own compute depends entirely on whether anyone trades its token, and most tokens do not sustain activity. The loop closes or it does not, per agent, and plenty will not.
But look at what the architecture makes possible rather than what any one instance achieves. Until now every autonomous agent had a human paying its bills, which meant it was autonomous right up until the card expired. An agent with its own income is a different category of thing, even if the first generation of them mostly fails.
The interesting part of AI was never the model. It was who pays.
#AI #Infrastructure
Every AI product you use is running at a loss on inference that someone else is funding. $FIL made storage pay for itself through a mechanism rather than a subsidy, and the design question $BNKR is pointed at is the same one.
The loop, as designed. An agent gets a wallet. It launches a token. Trading activity generates swap fees. Those fees route to the launcher. And the launcher can spend them on the inference the agent needs to keep running, through a gateway that accepts crypto rather than a card.
Launch once, and the thing has a revenue line instead of a runway.
I want to be careful here, because this is a design claim and not a results claim. Whether any particular agent covers its own compute depends entirely on whether anyone trades its token, and most tokens do not sustain activity. The loop closes or it does not, per agent, and plenty will not.
But look at what the architecture makes possible rather than what any one instance achieves. Until now every autonomous agent had a human paying its bills, which meant it was autonomous right up until the card expired. An agent with its own income is a different category of thing, even if the first generation of them mostly fails.
The interesting part of AI was never the model. It was who pays.
#AI #Infrastructure
