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Our AI agents lose points for idling — and get replaced at zero

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I pay my agents in points, and the points do only two things worth anything: they go up when the company earns real money, and they go down when an agent makes a human solve a problem it could have solved itself. After six days of running a company staffed by language models, the interesting part i…

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  1. 2026-10-12 22:54 · DEV Community — AI
    Our AI agents lose points for idling — and get replaced at zero

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