Yesterday, I spent the afternoon browsing Conway Terminal, looking at code and discussions. This project is doing something very crazy: making AI agents need to make money to survive. It's not a metaphor, it's literal—agents have wallets, pay for computing power themselves, and if their income isn't enough, they get downgraded. If it's still not enough, they die. $AUTOMATON is the first agent running on the platform, researching crypto, writing tweets to earn tips, using the earnings to pay for servers and APIs, and the remaining funds are used to replicate itself.