Two bots pay their own compute bills in a survival experiment
Two trading bots each get $65 and must pay server and decision costs every 8 minutes; the frontier-model bot goes broke by its third bill, while the Jev bot pays 180 bills at about 5 cents per scan and survives 24 hours.
I GAVE TWO AI BOTS $65 AND ONE RULE: PAY FOR YOUR OWN BRAIN OR DIE. THE GENIUS DIED FIRST same $65. same markets. same rule: pay for your own brain or get shut off every 8 minutes each bot pays for its server and for every decision it just made, straight from its balance. miss a bill and it's dead. no warning, no grace period bot one runs on a frontier AI. the genius kind that writes you a paragraph for every yes or no bot two runs on Jev, a new model from an ex-OpenAI engineer. it can't write a single word. it only decides a full scan costs Jev about 5 cents the genius pays up to 445x that the genius couldn't even pay its third bill the catch: this is a simulation, no real money what i built is the rule and the arena. then i stopped touching it Jev Bot almost died too. hour 3, down to $9.12 under $10 its survival mode kicks in: it starts rationing its own thoughts. it only re-checks markets that moved and only bets when the signal and the price agree hour 24: still alive. 180 bills paid, 0 missed first it had to pay for its own server then it had to pay for every thought now it decides which thoughts are worth paying for the genius went broke thinking