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Re:Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents by lbreakjai on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @03:39PM (#46305199)
Humans respect the rules because if they don't, then they lose their jobs, can't pay their mortgages, and become homeless. That's quite a powerful incentive not to fudge the numbers too much.

There's no LLM equivalent.

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Re:Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents by rajvarkala on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @03:42PM (#46305252)
The agent builder loses contract .. Is this not force enough to make AI worthwhile?
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Re:Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents by lbreakjai on Thursday December 18, 2025 @08:59AM (#46312728)
Why would the AI care? The agent builder is still asking a non-deterministic black box with no skin in the game to behave a certain way, they have no guarantees.
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Re:Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents by rajvarkala on Thursday December 18, 2025 @12:24PM (#46315714)
If the AI is never going to be manageable, never trustable, then the whole idea of agentic systems is dumb.

What is the point of an agent running and you don't trust it?

That would be equivalent to calling this whole AI wave useless. May be it is, maybe it is not.

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Re:Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents by lbreakjai on Thursday December 18, 2025 @09:52PM (#46321801)
That's ... how they fundamentally work?
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