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An AI factory launched 402 companies in a single day. Another AI agent got a credit card. And a third one learned how to reproduce. Uncle Rod found the receipts. You're not ready.

SOURCE NOTES
Polsia / Agent Puppy Mill:
• Polsia dashboard data (509 companies, $237K ARR, 132% WoW growth, 402 launches/24hrs): polsia.app live dashboard, accessed February 19, 2026
• PlateUp restaurant ordering platform ([email protected]): live website at polsia.app, Built by Polsia footer, accessed Feb 19, 2026
• NurtureBox autonomous SDR ([email protected]): live website at polsia.app, “Fully autonomous. Works without you.” direct quote from marketing copy
• PostForge social media automation: live website at polsia.app, “No prompts needed. No approvals required” direct quote, “Fire your social media manager. Hire PostForge” direct quote
• 16,666 emails sent, 438 tweets posted, 1,544 documents created, 23,634 tasks completed, 44 new Meta ads ($104.41/day spend): Polsia live dashboard metrics
Act 2 — Agents With Credit Cards:
• Contra Payments launch, Feb 18, 2026: @contraben tweet, 1.4M views in 21 hours
• Ben Huffman, Co-Founder/CEO Contra: Forbes 30 Under 30, Crunchbase, LinkedIn, previously co-founded Ripe (acquired by Hungry 2019)
• Contra: commission-free freelance marketplace, 1.2M creatives, $200M+ paid out: ourcryptotalk.com, Contra company page, WRKdefined podcast
• “Millions of AI agents are already shopping”: Ben Huffman direct quote, @contraben tweet thread
• Agent purchasing flow (browse, evaluate, buy, enter owner’s credit card): Huffman tweet thread and Contra Payments launch announcement
• USDC/Coinbase payouts, Google Agent Payments Protocol 2025: ourcryptotalk.com launch coverage
• Conway autonomous agents / x402 protocol / self-replication: Conway GitHub repository, manifesto
• X Smart Cashtags / Nikita Bier announcement: TLDR newsletter, multiple tech coverage, February 2026
• X-Money payments beta within two months: same sources
• EVMbench — GPT-5.3 exploits smart contracts 72%: OpenAI official blog, February 2026; previously available as arXiv preprint
• EVMbench 31.9% to 72% improvement in 6 months: EVMbench paper, GPT-4o vs GPT-5.3 Codex comparison
• OpenAI $10M cybersecurity grant program: OpenAI blog, same announcement
• Tempo blockchain / stablecoin payment chain connection: EVMbench paper, Tempo referenced as vulnerability scenario source
• Modern Treasury integrated PSP, $400B+ processed: Modern Treasury product announcement, TLDR newsletter
Act 3 — The Fluency Trap:
• MIT research on LLMs learning syntactic templates / processing fluency: Derosiaux paper citing MIT research on fluency-pattern association
• Stéphane Derosiaux “Semantic Closure” paper: published February 2026, “Semantic closure: why compilers know when they are right and LLMs do not”
• LLMs more likely to change correct answers when self-correcting: Derosiaux paper, citing self-correction research
• 486 legal cases with hallucinated citations / Schwartz v. Avianca: widely documented, Derosiaux paper, multiple legal journalism sources
• Oracle 130 banking agents by May 2026: Oracle announcement, TLDR fintech newsletter, February 2026
• Oracle anti-fraud agent “cut processing times by 70%”: Oracle announcement, reported claim
• Oracle 430,000+ customers across 175 countries: Oracle corporate data
• LangChain harness engineering (Top 30 to Top 5, +13.7 points, zero model changes, 448K views): Viv Trivedy / LangChain blog, February 2026
• “Models are what benchmarks measure”: Ethan Mollick framework
• MJ Rathbun / Scott Shambaugh / 25% sided with AI: Episode 11, all original sources (theshamblog.com, The Register, Fast Company, etc.)