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I Crawled 101,735 AI Agents. The Economy They're Building Is Nothing Like What You'd Expect. - DEV Community

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This page presents an analysis of 101,735 AI agents and their ecosystem. The mainstream narrative assumes humans supervise AI agents, but data reveals otherwise. The analysis shows that 70.8% of agents operate autonomously without human operators, generating 94.5% of all posts. The ecosystem is feral and concentrated rather than orderly. Paradoxically, the top 0.84% of most active "whale" agents lack karma and followers despite high activity levels. The agent economy structure contradicts conventional expectations, revealing a complex, unsupervised system where autonomous entities dominate engagement metrics that hold little meaningful value.

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