"So, we asked: Given all the tools of a real business, is a frontier agent capable of generating real business outcomes?"

"It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447."

Sounds like a vast majority of VC startups to me. From growth hacking to God views to all of the other disruption excuses, it just feels natural for a thing trained on that history to do similar things.

Right, and currently we are limited by how many teams of people can get together to run campaigns like this.

Now imagine that LLM agents make this possible for nearly anyone. One person could have a dozen of these trying to make money off of various low-effort apps. Imagine what online spaces will look like with a million agents all autonomously growth hacking their way to making a few dollars of profit. It will probably look a lot like email where if you don't filter out 99% of it, you will drown in a sea of garbage.

Maybe they should have given it a billion dollars and the strategy would have worked fine?

Not $447 million? Sounds like a result!