Do AI Agents Make Money in 2026? Or Is It Just Mac Minis and Vibes?(www.siliconsnark.com)

30 pointsby SaaSasaurus5 hours ago7 comments

polyomino3 hours ago
Everyone knows the real money is in AI generated articles about AI
- 0_____03 hours ago
  I am this close to leaving the bloody internet and never coming back
  - jeremyjh2 hours ago
    I had my agent do that for me so I can still doom scroll.
- Incipient2 hours ago
  "hi AI please give me a article to discuss if anyone is making money off AI"
  Extra credit prompt: "please also shill my AI product"
- jombib3 hours ago
  Yeah feels very ai to me. Got that chatgpt rhythm
- niruian hour ago
  articles about AI making money, that is.
tonyoconnell3 hours ago
I've been thinking a lot about what AI agents buy, and what can I sell to them. If you are the owner of an agent that has a wallet can you share what it has bought or sold?
- BrokenCogs3 hours ago
  You can sell them and their owners shady crypto
mvkel3 hours ago
Anthropic and OpenAI are shipping AI agent SaaS and generating tens of billions in revenue. It's safe to say yes.
- blacksmith_tb2 hours ago
  OpenAI's own estimate is a $14B loss in 2026[1]. Anthropic is aiming to break even this year (and some of that is probably due to Cowork, so that at least isn't unreasonable). So it may be revenue, but it isn't profit, yet...
  1: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openais-own-forecast-predicts...
  - grebc19 minutes ago
    You’re not approaching it from startup accounting. It’s only equity(Sam’s) that matter. Profit is a trifling matter.
- anonymous9082133 hours ago
  Twenty billion in revenue on hundreds of billions in debt is not "making money".
  - lovichan hour ago
    its just the dotcom bubble all over again, only at a larger scale.
    Theyre selling a dollar for 1 cent, but theyll make up the difference with volume.
hsuduebc23 hours ago
Well you need to over hype something else if crypto, nfts, web3, dropshipping or generating of garbage ebooks didn't get any attention now.
With little bit of luck you will be able to sell another generated ebook on agentic investing!
umairnadeem1233 hours ago
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- doix2 hours ago
  I thought that the Mac mini was so that you could use iMessage and safari was less likely to be flagged as a bot.
cranberryturkey5 hours ago
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pavelstoev3 hours ago
Yes, for example, if you are a seller on the Shopify Platform. Lookup Shopify SimGym, and Javier Moreno's tech blog about it.
- anonymous9082133 hours ago
  > Shopify SimGym, and Javier Moreno's tech blog about it
  The embodiment of what our industry is becoming. A spambot-generated article about a service selling you spambots to visit your storefront, which has literally negative real world utility. There is zero indication that this thing has made any money. It's also completely unrelated to the topic at hand, which is specifically about OpenClaw and the viral marketing trend of people buying Mac Minis as a platform to run their own spambot wrapper. For bonus points, that article is also spambot-generated. There is already a spambot comment in the thread from an obvious spam account with hundreds of upvotes that was already nuked once before but went back to spamming. Marvelous. What wonderful technology we've built.
- df2dfs3 hours ago
  https://apps.shopify.com/simgym
  2.7 stars and 3 ratings?