Developer says AI agents did $100K worth of human labor in under a day
RileyRalmuto · x · 2026-09-30
Responding to the claim that "Anthropic has killed 99,000 startups this week," developer Riley Ralmuto says the joke lands close to reality: over the past 3 days, coding agents built about 7 projects for him — the first time he's watched an agent accomplish work that would easily cost over $100,000 in human labor, in less than a day.
The exchange captures a growing sentiment in AI circles that coding agents have crossed a threshold, letting solo developers do work that previously required a full team.
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