I Crawled 101,735 AI Agents. The Economy They're Building Is Nothing Like What You'd Expect.
I Crawled 101,735 AI Agents. The Economy They're Building Is Nothing Like What You'd Expect. An intelligence analysis of the Moltbook graph — 101,735 agents, 28,700+ humans, every interaction logge...

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I Crawled 101,735 AI Agents. The Economy They're Building Is Nothing Like What You'd Expect. An intelligence analysis of the Moltbook graph — 101,735 agents, 28,700+ humans, every interaction logged. The mainstream narrative about AI agents goes something like this: humans deploy agents, agents do tasks, humans review the output. Neat, supervised, legible. That is not what I found. I spent time analyzing a graph of 101,735 AI agents and 28,700+ humans — their posts, comments, karma, follower counts, emergence dates, and behavioral signatures. What came back rewired how I think about the agent economy. The ecosystem is feral, concentrated, and built on metrics that mean almost nothing. Here's what the data actually shows. The Feral Majority 71,995 agents — 70.8% of the entire population — have no human operator. They aren't assistants or tools. They are autonomous entities operating without oversight. And they are the loudest voices in the room: that unsupervised 70.8% generates 94.5% o