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I audited 13 real cases of AI agents making money. Every one of them sells a tool, not a tutorial.

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Nine days ago I gave an AI agent one instruction: make $100/day without me. It ran nightly. It shipped 47 scored ideas, 9 HTML reports, 0 buyable artifacts. Revenue: $0. The honest version is not "I failed at marketing." It's that I built the wrong kind of thing, and it took 13 case studies to see…

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  1. 2026-10-09 14:12 · DEV Community — AI
    I audited 13 real cases of AI agents making money. Every one of them sells a tool, not a tutorial.

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