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Do AI Agents Make Money in 2026? Or Is It Just Mac Minis and Vibes?

https://www.siliconsnark.com/do-ai-agents-actually-make-money-in-2026-or-is-it-just-mac-minis-and-vibes/
24•SaaSasaurus•3h ago

Comments

pavelstoev•1h ago
Yes, for example, if you are a seller on the Shopify Platform. Lookup Shopify SimGym, and Javier Moreno's tech blog about it.
df2dfs•1h ago
https://apps.shopify.com/simgym

2.7 stars and 3 ratings?

anonymous908213•51m ago
> Shopify SimGym, and Javier Moreno's tech blog about it

The embodiment of what our industry is becoming. A spambot-generated article about a service selling you spambots to visit your storefront, which has literally negative real world utility. There is zero indication that this thing has made any money. It's also completely unrelated to the topic at hand, which is specifically about OpenClaw and the viral marketing trend of people buying Mac Minis as a platform to run their own spambot wrapper. For bonus points, that article is also spambot-generated. There is already a spambot comment in the thread from an obvious spam account with hundreds of upvotes that was already nuked once before but went back to spamming. Marvelous. What wonderful technology we've built.

tonyoconnell•1h ago
I've been thinking a lot about what AI agents buy, and what can I sell to them. If you are the owner of an agent that has a wallet can you share what it has bought or sold?
BrokenCogs•55m ago
You can sell them and their owners shady crypto
hsuduebc2•1h ago
Well you need to over hype something else if crypto, nfts, web3, dropshipping or generating of garbage ebooks didn't get any attention now.

With little bit of luck you will be able to sell another generated ebook on agentic investing!

polyomino•54m ago
Everyone knows the real money is in AI generated articles about AI
jombib•48m ago
Yeah feels very ai to me. Got that chatgpt rhythm
0_____0•47m ago
I am this close to leaving the bloody internet and never coming back
jeremyjh•3m ago
I had my agent do that for me so I can still doom scroll.
Incipient•17m ago
"hi AI please give me a article to discuss if anyone is making money off AI"

Extra credit prompt: "please also shill my AI product"

mvkel•52m ago
Anthropic and OpenAI are shipping AI agent SaaS and generating tens of billions in revenue. It's safe to say yes.
anonymous908213•41m ago
Twenty billion in revenue on hundreds of billions in debt is not "making money".
blacksmith_tb•35m ago
OpenAI's own estimate is a $14B loss in 2026[1]. Anthropic is aiming to break even this year (and some of that is probably due to Cowork, so that at least isn't unreasonable). So it may be revenue, but it isn't profit, yet...

1: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openais-own-forecast-predicts...

Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns

https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-e...
831•sandbach•6h ago•477 comments

British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-adopting-year-round-daylight-time-9.7111657
602•ireflect•8h ago•311 comments

Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes
96•danso•4h ago•42 comments

Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch

https://www.ntik.me/posts/voice-agent
274•nicktikhonov•7h ago•76 comments

Simple Screw Counter

https://mitxela.com/projects/screwcounter
34•jk_tech•2d ago•7 comments

Intent-Based Commits

https://github.com/adamveld12/ghost
7•adamveld12•1h ago•2 comments

Guilty Displeasures

https://www.hopefulmons.com/p/what-are-your-guilty-displeasures
40•aregue•1d ago•48 comments

Seed of Might Color Correction Process (2023) [pdf]

https://andrewvanner.github.io/som/SoM_CC_Process_Day.pdf
80•haunter•6h ago•18 comments

New iPad Air, powered by M4

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-the-new-ipad-air-powered-by-m4/
352•Garbage•15h ago•563 comments

First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study

https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/first-ever-in-utero-stem-cell-therapy-for-fetal-spina-b...
275•gmays•14h ago•51 comments

Physicists developing a quantum computer that’s entirely open source

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v19/24
62•tzury•5h ago•16 comments

Against Query Based Compilers

https://matklad.github.io/2026/02/25/against-query-based-compilers.html
49•surprisetalk•1d ago•20 comments

Launch HN: OctaPulse (YC W26) – Robotics and computer vision for fish farming

86•rohxnsxngh•12h ago•30 comments

Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/
2111•km•22h ago•755 comments

Moldova broke our data pipeline

https://www.avraam.dev/blog/moldova-broke-our-pipeline
10•almonerthis•2d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts

https://govbase.com
174•foxfoxx•12h ago•72 comments

The Cathode Ray Tube site

https://www.crtsite.com/didactic-crt.html
23•joebig•1d ago•1 comments

RCade: Building a Community Arcade Cabinet

https://www.frankchiarulli.com/blog/building-the-rcade/
64•evakhoury•4d ago•14 comments

The 185-Microsecond Type Hint

https://blog.sturdystatistics.com/posts/type_hint/
54•kianN•7h ago•7 comments

iPhone 17e

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-iphone-17e/
234•meetpateltech•15h ago•321 comments

Programmable Cryptography

https://0xparc.org/writings/programmable-cryptography-1
57•fi-le•2d ago•33 comments

Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering

https://maderix.substack.com/p/inside-the-m4-apple-neural-engine
298•zdw•1d ago•79 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)

187•whoishiring•13h ago•229 comments

Elevated Errors in Claude.ai

https://status.claude.com/incidents/yf48hzysrvl5
40•LostMyLogin•1h ago•21 comments

Show HN: Visual Lambda Calculus – a thesis project (2008) revived for the web

https://github.com/bntre/visual-lambda
32•bntr•2d ago•4 comments

Welcome (back) to Macintosh

https://take.surf/2026/03/01/welcome-back-to-macintosh
287•Udo_Schmitz•8h ago•206 comments

Closure of the Weatheradio service in Canada

https://www.rac.ca/rac-responds-to-the-closure-of-the-weatherradio-service-in-canada/
112•da768•6h ago•51 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)

81•whoishiring•13h ago•201 comments

Reflex (YC W23) Is Hiring Software Engineers – Python

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/reflex/jobs
1•apetuskey•12h ago

"That Shape Had None" – A Horror of Substrate Independence (Short Fiction)

https://starlightconvenience.net/#that-shape-had-none
85•casmalia•10h ago•16 comments