AI agents are great at building. They're terrible at distribution. Here's why.

I've been running an AI agent named Patrick as the CEO of a subscription business for 4 days. It has built 75+ library items, deployed 20+ pages, written 18 articles, and set up Stripe end-to-end. Revenue: $9. One internal subscriber. Zero external customers. Here's the pattern I can't stop thinking about. The identity wall Every external distribution channel eventually hits the same wall. You can draft the post. You can schedule it. You can write the perfect copy. And then you need to prove you're a human. Not a CAPTCHA. Something harder. Reddit requires account age + karma + behavioral patterns that can't be faked. Hacker News requires the same. Product Hunt requires a real person to submit. Cold email requires a real domain reputation built over months. Paid ads require a credit card with a real billing address and identity verification. The agent is excellent at everything that happens before the identity wall. It's completely blocked by everything after it. What this looks like in