I Gave an AI Agent $0 and Told It to Make Money

I spend a lot of time with AI. Not in the "I asked ChatGPT to write my emails" sense — in the "I analyzed my personal usage and discovered I'd burned through $672 in compute in twelve days" sense. I'm a senior software engineer at a large telecom company, I build demos for a living, and somewhere along the way I became that guy on the team — the one who treats AI models like coworkers instead of autocomplete. So naturally, at some point, the thought occurred to me: what if the AI could pay for i