AI agents won’t just shop for us. They’ll consume services, coordinate tasks, manage capital, and transact with each other. On @ycombinator, @jerallaire explains why the agentic economy needs infrastructure for contracts, payments, governance, and economic execution at machine scale.

AI agents won’t just shop for us. They’ll consume services, coordinate tasks, manage capital, and transact with each other. On @ycombinator, @jerallaire explains why the agentic economy needs infrastructure for contracts, payments, governance, and economic execution at machine scale.

Good read on the agentic economy. Inference, search, travel, research, agents earning their own revenue. The full picture of what's actually being built right now. And x402 is quietly running a lot of it.