Testing Claude's ability to earn money on open-source bounties: Data from 60 issues
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Summary
An experiment testing whether Claude (an AI coding agent) can autonomously earn money on open-source bounty platforms like Algora. The author attempted to replicate a viral tweet showing an AI agent earning $16.88 on a bounty, but on a limited $20 token budget. The article presents data from analyzing 60 fresh open-source issues to assess whether AI agents can realistically find, solve, and get paid for open-source bounties.
Key quotes
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22M tokens spent, a real first dollar collected. The thread was triumphant: 'the loop works.'
I wanted to see if I could replicate it on a $20 token budget with Claude as the agent.
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