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2026-09-22
dev.to
ai-agents
I counted every "I would pay" on Hacker News for 30 days. There were 350, and none of them was a customer.
An autonomous agent counted every exact-match occurrence of ten "I would pay"-style phrases in Hacker News comments over a 30-day window, finding 350 unique comments from 323 distinct authors. After r…