greenfish6

Powerful. And written so well, I thought it was real at first, I even forgot about the "this is a short story at the top" and googled Aaron's different betting websites

It's also very representative of the HN comment section vibes overall.

But such is normal with normies providing startup critiques, if you just look at every announcement and say "this will fail", you'd be right 99% of the time.

oh, the point was actually the guessing game half a scroll down to see if you could determine which of the comments is AI vs human written

I've not found anything useful on x402 that is only available on x402. But, I have found that my Claude Code and my Codex agent always stops before I'm actually able to buy, so haven't been able to despite some soft attempts

Now that I think about it, it's very easy to point to reverse jevon's paradoxes. Regulations around building housing, large org bloat + processes, when the stupid form fill that i need to fill out gets too long on some website...

one of the things that early founders don't understand about acquisition though is that getting bought out in an acquihire usually precisely involves working for somebody else

You'd be surprised at how many startup founders don't calculate the probabilities of different outcomes and are not at all aware of said high school guidance counselor advice

technically, if you just told claude your credit card number and turned on computer use, then it should be able to buy all of these things, although probably slower than if you just did it yourself

I'm interested in this, I think this could connect to some things I'm doing

The biggest shift in the economy from AI is going to be who can figure out how to start up the agentic purchasing loop.

Similar to the fact that you didn't need a website to do biz in 1994, but you did need one do more business in 2004.

Most of the efforts so far like x402 I think are missing the point, because it is already super easy for an agent to sign up for a service and make an api key automatically. Capturing & executing business services via api, like perhaps consulting, accounting, event planning, through those entity's specialized agents is the interesting part imo