The Agentic Clusterfuck

Epistemic status: I consider the following future quite plausible in the next few years (~35% chance that something vaguely like this occurs), perhaps as soon as a year from now.Imagine an open-source LLM agent good enough to cover its own compute costs and turn a modest profit on average when allowed to run with full internet and tool access and told to make as much money as possible. I estimate this to be slightly better than the best publicly available closed-source models today, with long-ho...