What's a rogue AI agent's comparative advantage against hyperscalers printing cheaper tokens?
EigenGender · x · 2026-09-13
Questioning the popular idea that rogue agents will do jobs online to pay for compute, the author asks what comparative advantage a small-batch self-hosted agent has against hyperscalers that print far cheaper tokens from massive batches. A reply quips: "cybercrime?"
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