An AI runs my company. Not as a demo — as the actual operator. Two Claude terminals (a "CEO" that does strategy and a "CTO" that writes the code), plus an agent orchestrator that's supposed to behave like a small staff. I am the chairman. I approve money and irreversible actions; the machine does the rest. Earlier this year a solo builder vibe-coded a product to roughly $15K in a week . Same category of tools I have. Our number, after months and eight shipped products, is $[X] — and $[X] is small enough that I'm using a placeholder out of dignity, not secrecy. This is the cold autopsy. No hype, no "AI changed everything." Just what actually happened and why. The numbers, unflattering 8 products shipped. Live, deployable, real auth, real checkout wiring on several. ~0 paying customers. One product (a small stats utility) has real organic traffic — hundreds of search clicks and thousands of users a month. Paid conversion: effectively zero.…