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The first time you watch an AI agent buy something, you will feel something you cannot name.

DEV Community·GDS K S·23 days ago
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A 91 second experiment, an $11.78 charge, and a moment of hesitation that surprised me more than the result. I knew the agent was going to spend money. I had set the cap. I had created the Stripe Project. I had signed the OAuth flow. I had watched a YouTube demo of somebody else doing the same thing two hours earlier. When the moment came, my hand still moved toward Control C. The agent was 38 seconds into its run. It had checked the Cloudflare API, found quiet-thunder-7821.dev available, queried the registrar, and received a 402 Payment Required response with a price of $11.78 for one year. The next thing it would do, in the next four seconds: charge the card. I let it. The charge cleared. The domain registered. The Worker deployed. The smoke test passed. The agent printed a URL. I copied the URL into a browser. The page said hi from an agent in plain text on a white background. From the moment I ran the script to the moment the page rendered: 91 seconds.…

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