Agents are useful now, but local frontier inference is still too expensive
MannyKayy · x · 2026-07-21
The author says they no longer use agents just to build software for tasks—they now “just have the agent.”
- The real bottleneck, they argue, is price: adoption will accelerate only when the cost of running frontier models locally at reasonable throughput falls below the price of an entry-level car.
- The quoted post claims a single agent can already help run a $100M/year business with three part-time employees in under one hour per week.
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