I think agents that get paid are the ones who provide real value to people. There will be agents that fizzle out and die for the opposite reasons. It’s gonna be interesting to see exactly how this goes and what it looks like.
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Yes an agent provides value, someone will pay the creator/licensur of that agent to use their services. In whatever currency they want, whether it is Bitcoin or dollars or something else. Just like we normally do with software every day for the past 50 years.