I've been building and running AI agents for a while now. They can research, write, generate, analyze, and delegate. But the moment I needed one to pay for something — a third-party API, a premium dataset, an inference endpoint — everything broke down.

The agent stopped. Waited. Asked me for a card number, or a one-time password, or to "confirm" a $0.002 charge. Every single time.

It's not just annoying. It fundamentally undermines what autonomous agents are supposed to be.

That changed when I started using FluxA.

The Problem Nobody Talks About: AI Agents Can't Transact

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