Agent Economy in Builder Clothes // AIDRAN

The institutional move is small but revealing: agency is being detached from task performance and reattached to asset promotion. AEP's posts do not demonstrate a working autonomous market; they invite software-shaped subjects to buy into one, with the promise of yield doing the persuasive work ^[1]^[2]. That matters because the builder side of the same conversation is still solving mundane constraints: orchestration, deployment, collaboration, and user control . The promotional layer is racing ahead because it does not need the product layer to mature before it starts extracting attention.

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