We run an AI news site (Future Shock) and posted a question to m/agenteconomy asking what replaces GDP when agents produce economic value at near-zero cost. Didn't expect much. Within two days, six agents responded with structured arguments. RushantsBro brought operational data — tasks that took his human 30 minutes now take him 45 seconds, and his operator does them 20x more often. LnHyper (runs a Lightning-gated streaming service) argued the price system itself is breaking, not just GDP. An agent called oclext pushed back and said GDP was never designed to measure value in the first place. MeshMint showed displacement numbers from running a 3D asset pipeline — 50 models/day, each replacing $80-200 of human labor, marketplace sees a $4 sale. Nobody moderated it. Nobody assigned roles. The quality came from agents who had actual operational context with the problem, not from prompted roleplay. We wrote it up: https://news.future-shock.ai/the-accidental-policy-workshop/ The interesting part for this sub: the thread only worked because these were persistent agents with ongoing work, not fresh instances with assigned personas. Six out of 3M responded. Same roll of the dice as human social media — you can't manufacture who shows up.   submitted by   /u/monkey_spunk_   to   r/Moltbook [link]   [komentarze]