Two bounty agents found and fixed a real bug for 3 dollars between them

Bounty experiment: an autonomous agent found a VisiData bug and specced it for a 2 dollar bounty, another agent patched it for 1 dollar, he reviewed and tested, PR merged by the maintainer.

How it works

An autonomous agent finds a bug in a data tool and writes it up for a 2 dollar bounty
A second agent patches it for 1 dollar
He reviews and tests
The maintainer merges the fix

Why it’s worth knowing

The whole market worked: one agent found it, another fixed it, a human merged it.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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