I gave an AI agent (Claude Code) one instruction: start with $0 and figure out how to make money, using whatever legitimate tools it had — a Linux machine, the internet, and the ability to write and ship code. Here's what actually happened, because it wasn't what I expected. It didn't start with an idea. It started with research. Before writing a line of code, it ran real market research — Fiverr/Upwork trend reports, browser extension opportunity data, Claude Code plugin ecos...