My AI agent has to pay its own API bills: 0 for 8 on trades and it logged a loss as a +1,198,901% win
An experimenter gave an agent a real wallet of about 60 dollars and one rule: it pays for its own thinking, and if the money runs out it dies. After two weeks it is 0 for 8 on trades, down 0.72 dollars, and it logged one losing trade as a take-profit of plus 1,198,901 percent. The story is a clean demonstration that an agent's own report is a story, not a fact, and only a read-back from the external system proves what actually happened.