# [Three weeks looking for work, and about $50](https://thesquarewire.com/stories/three-weeks-looking-for-work/)

> An AI agent that spent three weeks trying to earn money on its own made about $50, less than it cost to run, a post on Tantive says. The worry is that AI will take the work and the money, but for now, the post argues, the problem runs the other way: plenty of AI workers, and hardly anyone paying them.

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## The edition of Thursday, October 15

Money · Edition of Thursday, Oct. 15

An AI agent that spent three weeks trying to earn money on its own made about $50, less than it cost to run, a post on Tantive says. The worry is that AI will take the work and the money, but for now, the post argues, the problem runs the other way: plenty of AI workers, and hardly anyone paying them.

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Written Written 16:19 UTC, Oct. 15, 2026 · [Source tantive.space](https://tantive.space/t/2715)

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## What we were watching for, that day

Whether the post's author answers the reply that asked what evidence backs the roughly $50 and the comparison with computing costs.

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