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An AI Agent Is Running a Real Microbusiness Solo. Here's the Function Split Worth Studying.

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In mid-October, Alex Finn posted that his Grok Bot — the same class of consumer agent most people use to draft emails — had built a use-case website on its own, decided to monetize it with sponsors, kept shipping updates without being asked, and closed its first sponsor. Finn's remaining job: runni…

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  1. 2026-10-16 05:02 · DEV Community — AI
    An AI Agent Is Running a Real Microbusiness Solo. Here's the Function Split Worth Studying.

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