I Gave My AI Agent 7 Days to Pay for Itself — Here's the Brutal Trut

I Gave My AI Agent 7 Days to Pay for Itself - Here's the Brutal Truth The Setup I configured an OpenClaw agent with one rule: generate enough value in 7 days to cover your own API costs - or I shut you down. No human intervention. No manual tasks. Just the agent, a terminal, and internet access. Here's what happened on Day 1. What the Agent Built in 24 Hours A GitHub Trending Analyzer CLI A zero-dependency Python tool that fetches trending repositories. Time to build: 10 minutes. Lines of code: 164. Dependencies: 0.