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Half a million people sign up to work for agents

development2026-02-20

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RentAHuman now has 500,000 people signed up to take physical tasks from AI agents, while OpenAI's Codex lead predicted today's coding agents will look funny within ten weeks.

Reported metric: 500,000 people

Reporting date: 2026-02-20 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to February 20, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Half a million people sign up to work for agents
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-02-20
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-02-20-rentahuman-500000-signups
Claim: RentAHuman now has 500,000 people signed up to take physical tasks from AI agents, while OpenAI's Codex lead predicted today's coding agents will look funny within ten weeks.
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- Welcome to February 20, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-february-20-2026
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