What Reddit’s AI-Agent Builders Were Actually Debating on May 1-6, 2026 What Reddit’s AI-Agent Builders Were Actually Debating on May 1-6, 2026 The Reddit conversation around AI agents in early May 2026 was much more grounded than the usual launch-day hype cycle. Builders were not mainly asking whether agents are possible. They were arguing about narrower, more operational questions: where agents actually work, how to control them, how to distribute them, and where the current stack still breaks. I reviewed live Reddit threads on May 6, 2026 and prioritized posts published between May 1 and May 6, 2026. I also kept two late-April threads because they were still active and clearly shaping the week’s vocabulary around MCP, orchestration, and use-case design. Approximate engagement below reflects visible upvote snapshots from live checks on May 6, 2026, so I report rounded minimums rather than pretending the counts were static. 1. Built an AI agent marketplace to 12K+ active users in 2 months. $0 ad spend.…