Reddit asks: AI agents are eating API budgets — how is anyone making money?
Nucleif · reddit · 2026-08-16
A developer complains on Reddit that AI agent API costs have gotten so high that he genuinely wonders if he's doing it wrong, joking that his billing makes him laugh.
He asks the community how people are actually making money with agents: do you run one main "cash cow" agent while the rest handle personal workflows, or operate a whole swarm to generate revenue?
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