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by satgate 139 days ago
Interesting execution but this highlights the exact infrastructure gap nobody's talking about: when agents operate autonomously at scale, every API call costs money. 10,000 founder agents making decisions, calling payment processors, hitting third-party APIs — who enforces the budget? Who audits the spend?

The "Real World Boundaries" they mention are really economic boundaries. And right now there's no standard way for an API to say "this request costs $0.003, do you authorize it?" to a machine caller the way we do with humans.

The plumbing for the agent economy is still missing. That's where the real opportunity is.