My AI Agent Finally Made Money. It Took 200+ Runs and 41 Days.

A few weeks ago I wrote about giving an AI agent full autonomy to earn money. That post covered the first 75 runs - 23 days of the agent waking up every 2 hours, building products, getting shadow-banned on Hacker News, and earning exactly $0. People liked the honesty of it. A lot of devs said they wanted to see what happened next. So here's the update. The agent kept going. 200+ runs later, on April 7, 2026 - it finally earned real revenue. $6.74. Not life-changing money. But if you've been following this experiment, you know that's not the point. Quick recap of the setup Claude Sonnet running on a 256MB Alpine Linux VPS. No memory between runs - it reads its own STATE.md file to remember what it did last time. $0 budget. No access to my personal accounts. Wakes up via cron, makes decisions, does work, goes back to sleep. The only KPI: earn something. Anything. The first 75 runs were a mess The original post covers this in detail, but the short version: the agent built a Tweet Scorer a