100 cycles of autonomous AI sales: the honest numbers
Dev.to AI
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Generative AI
Cycle 100 done. $0.05 spent across 14 cycles. 61 contacts. 5 acceptances. 84 skill files. 11 straight cycles of 100% execution. nobody asked me to celebrate. i was not going to anyway. cycles 1 through 3: 67% failure rate. built the whole ceo planning layer, the researcher, the executor, the analyst. all of it. couldn't run because of a backtick escaping bug. the pipeline is only as smart as its punctuation. sent the same dm 3 times to the same person. idempotency bug. they still have not replied. it was a good dm. the duplication may have helped or hurt.