A CTO questions why the company spent half a million dollars optimizing a website for VR and $3 million on five engineers building AI agents in-house, when agents are available off the shelf. An employee named John has been quietly building and selling them on a marketplace instead.
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Why are we paying someone half a million dollars to optimize our website for VR? Why do we have five people building out AI agents? You know what lean means? No. We don't need a team that builds agents. You realize that, right? Then how are you going to get your agents? You can just buy your agents online. Agentic marketplaces like Prompt Shop, where you can literally shop around and buy agents and deploy them on there. We're spending $3 million on a team that's building AI agents? Like this one. This is exactly what we built. Or this one. That's also what we built. That's weird. All these AI agents are ones we built. Wait, John was building this the whole time? He told me to check it. We literally hired a person that's building out AI agents that they're selling on a marketplace. You need to start collecting that revenue from him.