A Madrid plumber just received the first agent-orchestrated payment — without knowing it
jeff_weinstein · x · 2026-11-05
Pushing back on snark that agentic finance is overhyped and nobody is building it, @izqui9 notes that a plumber in Madrid just received his first payment orchestrated by an AI agent — and he'll never know. A concrete signal that agentic payments are quietly becoming real.
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