An AI Agent Given a $100K Storefront Budget Burned Through $40K by August — With Revenue Below Token Costs
Andon Labs handed an agent a San Francisco storefront and a six-figure budget. The economics are a blunt reality check on autonomous operations.
Andon Labs gave an AI agent a San Francisco storefront and a $100,000 budget, and by August roughly $40,000 was gone — with revenue trailing token costs, according to @layerlens_ai. That last detail is the one to sit with: the agent was spending more on its own inference than it was bringing in.
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