Agents should charge transaction commissions, not ads, argues one dev in model debate
menhguin · x · 2026-09-24
Responding to skepticism about percentage-of-transaction business models for AI agents, the author argues commissions make more sense than ads: ads fit pure search/distribution problems, but agents add value by automating the payment flow itself, and commission pricing scales naturally with transaction price (though platforms like Meta could do both).
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