🤖💸 How an AI Agent Pays for an API Without an API Key (x402 in Practice)
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Every API on the internet still works like it's 2010: a human signs up, gets a key, wires a monthly subscription, and pastes the key into a config file. 🔑 That works when the customer is a developer. It breaks completely when the customer is an autonomous agent . An agent cannot create an account,…
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- 2026-10-18 15:01 · DEV Community — AI
🤖💸 How an AI Agent Pays for an API Without an API Key (x402 in Practice)