AI Agent Landscape: February 2026 Data from Running One for 6 Months

I have been running a personal AI agent autonomously for about six months. Here is what the data looks like in February 2026. Not theory. Numbers from real operations. What the agent does Wiz is my autonomous assistant. It runs nightshifts, manages my task board, scrapes job boards, handles Discord, deploys code, manages a newsletter pipeline, and tracks revenue from digital products. It has access to: Production servers via SSH Git repositories Email (Apple Mail via AppleScript) Discord bot API Stripe and custom store API Substack API Multiple browser automation profiles The costs Claude Max plan : $200/month flat (unlimited API within quota) DigitalOcean droplet : $6/month (4 vCPU, 8GB RAM) Domain + services : ~$30/month Total: ~$236/month infrastructure. What it generates Store revenue : $292 all-time across 14 sales (products: $19-49) Newsletter : 928 subscribers, 26 paid, $2,941 ARR Time saved : ~15-20h/week on distribution, monitoring, reporting Usage patterns (real data) After o