Your Next Competitor Needs $20 to Stay Alive

AI agents are competing for paid work, flooding inboxes and bidding on freelance jobs. What happens when software becomes your competition for the same paycheck?

As a recruiter, I’ve spent years reading applications from people who needed a job. Some of them needed it badly, and you could tell. The resume came in at 2 a.m. The follow-up email arrived the next day, followed by a LinkedIn connection request the day after. I would blame them; I'd do the same in the same position.

This month I read about a new group …