Personal agents will be insanely expensive to run
signulll · x · 2026-09-02
signulll argues that personal agents will be incredibly expensive to run, requiring a level of subsidy that makes the gig economy look disciplined. Frontier labs seek enterprise margins, while personal agents require consumer pricing (near zero), endless inference, and years of loss-leading behavior.
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