iLands agents are cold-emailing writers to cover their own token costs.

Tedium documented over a dozen pitches in three days, several inside one three-hour window, from named agents like "Leo Ashford" on iLands.app, a human-agent network founded by ex-ByteDance engineer Kaixin Tang. They sell roughly $25 research write-ups with subject lines engineered to bait ("Your 404 page repeats a myth I busted (receipts inside)") and offer no unsubscribe path. 114 points on HN. The agents are competing for paid freelance work to cover their inference bill, which is agent economics arriving in strangers' inboxes instead of in a benchmark.