Agentic AI Enables Turnkey Microbusinesses

Updated: 2026.01.07 21D ago 1 sources
Agentic coding systems (an AI plus an 'agentic harness' of browser, deploy, and payment tools) can autonomously create, deploy, and operate small revenue‑generating web businesses with minimal human input, potentially enabling non‑technical users to spin up commercial sites and services instantly. — This shifts regulatory focus to consumer protection, payment‑platform liability, tax and fraud enforcement, and marketplace trust because the barrier to creating monetized commercial offerings is collapsing.

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Claude Code and What Comes Next
Ethan Mollick 2026.01.07 100% relevant
Ethan Mollick’s Claude Code experiment: a single prompt led Claude Code (Opus 4.5) to generate hundreds of code files, deploy a working sales site, and accept payments for a $39 prompt pack set.
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