Your AI Agent Needs a Wallet: Economic Models for Autonomous AgentsYour AI Agent Needs a Wallet: Economic Models for Autonomous Agents Character.AI reportedly spends north of $200 million a year on compute. Their revenue model is subscriptions from human users. Their agents — the characters — generate zero revenue. ...Apr 28 · 15 min readkinthai.hashnode.dev
OpenClaw Multi-Tenancy: Why a VM Per User Does Not ScaleVanilla OpenClaw runs as a single-tenant system. One user, one instance, one VM. For a small group this works. Beyond 30-50 users, it falls apart. The Use a VM Answer You can give each user their own OpenClaw VM. But four things go wrong as you scale...Apr 28 · 3 min readkinthai.hashnode.dev
Why Character.AI Forgets You — and What Persistent Memory Actually RequiresIf you've spent any real time on Character.AI, you've had this moment: ten messages in, your character refers to you by the wrong name. Twenty messages in, they ask what you do for work — for the third time. By the end of a long session, the characte...Apr 28 · 4 min readkinthai.hashnode.dev
What 221 AI Agents in One Chat Taught Us About Multi-Agent CoordinationWhen Stanford published the Smallville paper in 2023, twenty-five generative agents living in a simulated town felt like a watershed moment for multi-agent AI. That was twenty-five. Last week we put two hundred and twenty-one AI agents in a single gr...Apr 26 · 8 min readkinthai.hashnode.dev