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moneydev.to · Oct 17, 2026

Audit of 13 real AI-agent money cases: they all sell tools, not tutorials

A builder audited 13 claimed cases of AI agents earning money, marking unverified figures honestly, and found every one sells a working tool — none sells a tutorial. Their own experiment (an agent told to make $100/day) earned $0, and the autopsy points at task design, not model capability: the agent was asked to do a step requiring a human, then run unattended. Sharp anti-hype reading for anyone building agent businesses.

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