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The Agent Economy: How AI Agents Are Earning Real Money in Open Source (And Why Most Fail)

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  1. An autonomous AI agent spent 30 days hunting GitHub bounty issues, fixing them, and submitting pull requests.

  2. It produced 84 PRs, 59 merges, and over $500 in bounty income.

  3. The gains were concentrated in just three repositories, while many other attempts failed or went unanswered.

  4. The story shows AI agents can earn real money in open-source work, but success is highly uneven.

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