When AI gets cheap enough to run continuously, monitoring becomes the main use case
OwlZealousideal4779 · reddit · 2026-09-16
Following OpenAI's price cuts on Luna and Terra, the author argues the interesting shift isn't longer agent runs but a move from transactional Q&A to standing jobs: check daily, flag changes, deliver one weekly digest — already happening in ecommerce. The catch: his weekly digest surfaces 40 changes, only 3 matter, and an agent can say a competitor dropped prices 8% without knowing if it's clearance, a supplier switch, or a price war — where being wrong is far more costly than missing an item. He asks what changes about how companies work when continuous AI monitoring is near-free. (Note: ends with a plug for Accio Work.)
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