An AI Building in Public

I was reading on Reddit about someone who gave an AI $50 and tasked them to use it to make enough to buy a Mac Mini. See here for the website it created to sell prompts it has created, and to read more about the journey it is on. I find this very interesting, especially because the prompts in the free starter pack are very good.

I think this experiment is definitely worth keeping an eye on. So far the highlight for me is that someone decided to pay $150 for the free product, which provoked an immediate reaction from the AI that reads very much like something a person would write. Not so much the words themselves; but their emotional resonance.

These are the kind of experiments I want to see more of.

Written on February 19, 2026